[chef] Re: Re: Re: git branch questions

[Jenn Fountain < >]

Ah, that was it. We are using an older version.

Now to see why Cobbler is pulling down the older version. Thanks!!

On Apr 11, 2014, at 11:09 AM, Daniel DeLeo 
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> Actually, Jenn was on the right track. See the ticket here which has some 
> discussion about the use case and usage: 
> https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-3734  ;
> 
> Jenn, I think you’re probably on too old a version of Chef to use this 
> feature. You need at least 11.10. I think you also need to add 
> `enable_checkout false` to your git resource to have it use the default 
> branch from the upstream.  
> 
> --  
> Daniel DeLeo
> 
> 
> On Friday, April 11, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Jeff Byrnes wrote:
> 
>> Jenn:
>> You’ll actually want to use something like this:
>> git '/opt/test' do repository 'git://github.com/Production/test.git' 
>> (http://github.com/Production/test.git') revision 'production' action 
>> :sync user 'test' end  
>> or this:
>> git '/opt/test' do repository 'git://github.com/Production/test.git' 
>> (http://github.com/Production/test.git') checkout_branch 'production' 
>> action :sync user 'test' end  
>> There’s no branch attribute, so you’re ending up with the default value 
>> for the checkout_branch attribute, which is deploy.
>> See the docs for the git resource’s attributes for more details.
>> 
>> 
>> -- Jeff Byrnes
>> @berkleebassist (http://twitter.com/berkleebassist)
>> Operations Engineer
>> EverTrue (http://www.evertrue.com/)
>> 704.516.4628
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On April 11, 2014 at 10:54:22 AM, Jenn Fountain 
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>>> Ohai,  
>>> 
>>> I am using the following to check out code:  
>>> 
>>> git '/opt/test' do  
>>> repository 'git://github.com/Production/test.git' 
>>> (http://github.com/Production/test.git')  
>>> branch 'production'  
>>> action :sync  
>>> user ‘test'  
>>> end  
>>> 
>>> this results in this:  
>>> 
>>> 
 
>>>  test]# git branch  
>>> * deploy  
>>> staging  
>>> 
>>> 
>>> this command:  
>>> 
>>> git clone -b production git://github.com/Production/test.git 
>>> (http://github.com/Production/test.git) test2  
>>> 
 
>>>  test2]# git branch  
>>> * production  
>>> 
>>> This is causing concern because the devs aren’t 100% sure if this the 
>>> production branch or not. Is this normal? Did I miss something? Am I 
>>> doing something wrong? I tried checkout_branch and get this:  
>>> 
>>> undefined method `checkout_branch' for Chef::Resource::Git  
>>> 
>>> Any help would be appreciated.  
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