[chef] Strange git behavior - any suggestion is welcome

[Anthony Kong < >]

Hi

I use this resource to check out my private git project onto to an ec2 instance.

role = ENV['TARGET_ROLE']

git "/home/zeeting/apps/docverter" do

  repository " :acme/project.git"

  revision role == "uat" ? "dev" : "master"

  action :sync

end

However when I log in to the box and check the branch, it prints this:

$ git branch 

* deploy

  dev

I don't understand why the branch is set to deploy. It must be a locally created branch because I do not even have a branch called deploy. 

I am expecting the branch to be either 'dev' or 'master'

What can cause this behaviour?

Thanks, Tony