git – Deploy software (or files) from git checkouts

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Return Values
• Status

Synopsis

• Manage git checkouts of repositories to deploy files or software.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• git>=1.7.1 (the command line tool)

Parameters

Notes

Examples

# Example git checkout from Ansible Playbooks
- git:
    repo: 'https://foosball.example.org/path/to/repo.git'
    dest: /srv/checkout
    version: release-0.22

# Example read-write git checkout from github
- git:
    repo: [email protected]:mylogin/hello.git
    dest: /home/mylogin/hello

# Example just ensuring the repo checkout exists
- git:
    repo: 'https://foosball.example.org/path/to/repo.git'
    dest: /srv/checkout
    update: no

# Example just get information about the repository whether or not it has
# already been cloned locally.
- git:
    repo: 'https://foosball.example.org/path/to/repo.git'
    dest: /srv/checkout
    clone: no
    update: no

# Example checkout a github repo and use refspec to fetch all pull requests
- git:
    repo: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-examples.git
    dest: /src/ansible-examples
    refspec: '+refs/pull/*:refs/heads/*'

# Example Create git archive from repo
- git:
    repo: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-examples.git
    dest: /src/ansible-examples
    archive: /tmp/ansible-examples.zip

# Example clone a repo with separate git directory
- git:
    repo: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-examples.git
    dest: /src/ansible-examples
    separate_git_dir: /src/ansible-examples.git

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Core Team. [core]

Red Hat Support

More information about Red Hat’s support of this module is available from this Red Hat Knowledge Base article.

Authors

• Ansible Core Team
• Michael DeHaan