git pull not supported by ansible git module?

[namrat...@cube26.com]

I have a private git repo and I want it cloned onto my remote servers in the first execution of my playbook. Thereafter I want my repo to be pulled, not cloned over and over again for any change i make in the repository. What is the way to do that?

Right now my repo is cloned on every run of my playbook. Not very efficient.

[Brian Coca]

i think you are looking for the clone=no option.

from ansible-doc git:

- clone
If `no', do not clone the repository if it does not exist
locally (Choices: yes, no) [Default: yes]



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Brian Coca

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Jun 4, 2015 8:32 AM, <namrat...@cube26.com> wrote:
>
> I have a private git repo and I want it cloned onto my remote servers in the first execution of my playbook. Thereafter I want my repo to be pulled, not cloned over and over again for any change i make in the repository. What is the way to do that?
> Right now my repo is cloned on every run of my playbook. Not very efficient.
>

Are you using the git module or an ad hoc shell command?  The git module should do what you want with something like this:

- git:
      repo:  "ssh://g...@github.com/mylogin/hello.git"
      dest: /home/mylogin/hello

If it's cloning every time, some more information about how you are able to diagnose that it is cloning would be helpful.

-Toshio