struggling with vcsrepo, git, latest

[jwag]

I am working with 2.7.3, latest vcsrepo from github. Trying to get a
git workarea kept up to date (latest).
The call:

vcsrepo { "puppetm:git:co":
ensure => latest,
provider => git,
path => "$srcdir",
source => "g...@github.com:/xxx.git",
owner => "puppet",
group => "puppet",
identity => "$puppetm::puppethomedir/.ssh/
$puppetm::pkeyname",
}
I added some debugging (the warnings) to git.rb to try and figure out
what is going on... but am stumped:

warning: git with identity fetch--tagsorigin
warning: git with identity rev-parseHEAD
warning: git with identity branch-a
warning: git with identity fetchorigin
warning: git with identity fetch--tagsorigin
warning: git with identity rev-parseorigin/HEAD
warning: get_revision ff9625bad45d398573bd664a5fdf7ab2cfa4c185
warning: git with identity fetch--tagsorigin
warning: git with identity branch-a
warning: git with identity fetchorigin
warning: git with identity fetch--tagsorigin
warning: git with identity rev-parseorigin/HEAD
warning: get_revision ff9625bad45d398573bd664a5fdf7ab2cfa4c185
notice: /Stage[main]/Puppetm/Puppetm::Checkout[puppetm:cloudops]/
Vcsrepo[puppetm:git:co]/ensure: Updating to latest
'ff9625bad45d398573bd664a5fdf7ab2cfa4c185' revision
warning: git with identity branch-a
warning: git with identity tag-l
warning: git with identity branch-a
warning: remote_branch remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/masterremotes/
origin/devremotes/origin/masterremotes/origin/mvn_projremotes/origin/
tectonic_move
warning: git with identity checkout-
bff9625bad45d398573bd664a5fdf7ab2cfa4c185--trackorigin/
ff9625bad45d398573bd664a5fdf7ab2cfa4c185
err: /Stage[main]/Puppetm/Puppetm::Checkout[puppetm:cloudops]/
Vcsrepo[puppetm:git:co]/ensure: change from present to latest failed:
Execution of '/usr/bin/git checkout -b
ff9625bad45d398573bd664a5fdf7ab2cfa4c185 --track origin/
ff9625bad45d398573bd664a5fdf7ab2cfa4c185' returned 128: fatal: git
checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches.
Did you intend to checkout 'origin/
ff9625bad45d398573bd664a5fdf7ab2cfa4c185' which can not be resolved as
commit?

basically - it looks like it properly figured out the latest commit
SHA - but then goes and does a git checkout -b SHAxxx --track origin/
SHAxxx

but of course there is no remote branch named origin/SHAxxx

standard git setup (I think):

-bash-4.1$ git branch -a
* master
remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
remotes/origin/dev
remotes/origin/master
remotes/origin/mvn_proj

I have tried setting revision => "HEAD" - but that results in no
updates - possibly since it thinks that means the local HEAD rather
than the remote.

ideas?

[Jacob Helwig]

Unfortunately, last I checked the vcsrepo type was just broken when it
comes to what it does with Git repos. I started trying to clean it up
in my spare time[0], but don't have anything actually ready to merge
back into the main repo yet.

[0] https://github.com/jhelwig/puppet-vcsrepo/tree/rework-git-provider

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Jacob Helwig
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