[chef] Deploy cookbook -- revision not working?

[Liam Kirsher < >]

Well, actually it probably is working and I'm not doing something right.

I'm using deploy via the application cookbook, and my recipe looks like this...

application 'bart' do
  path root_path
  owner "nobody"
  group "nogroup"
    
  bart_data = data_bag_item('bti', 'bart')
  mongo_data = data_bag_item('bti', 'mongo')
    
  repository bart_data['repository']
  deploy_key bart_data['deploy_key']
  Chef::Log.warn("BRANCH: #{node['bart'][:branch]}")
  revision node['bart']['branch']
  migrate false

The correct value for [:bart][:branch] is printed in the log (in this case it happens to be  "development")
However, in the installation dir, it doesn't seem to have had any effect...?

git branch
* deploy
  master

I'm expecting to see "development" there. 
I'm assuming that the "deploy" branch is added by the deployment cookbook as a branch off of master.
In my case, I would want it to be branched off of development.

Can anyone explain how this works?

Liam

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