Ansible Role: Git

This Ansible role installs Git, a tool for version control, on any RHEL/CentOS or Debian/Ubuntu Linux system.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

Here are the variables you can use, along with their default values (found in defaults/main.yml):

• workspace: /root

  This is where files will be downloaded and organized before installing Git, if needed.

• git_enablerepo: ""

  Use this variable along with git_packages to install Git from a specific yum repo if git_install_from_source is false (only for CentOS). You can also use additional repositories you have installed to get a newer version of Git.

• git_packages:

  • git
  • git-svn

  These are the specific Git packages to be installed. By default, git-svn is included, but you can change this in your playbook by removing git-svn if you don't want it.

• git_install_from_source: false

  This determines if Git should be installed from source. If set to true, you must provide a git_version, which will be used to install a specific version of Git (you can find available versions at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/). The git_install_path shows where Git will be installed.

• git_install_from_source_force_update: false

  If Git is already installed at an older version and git_install_from_source is set to true, this will force it to update.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - { role: geerlingguy.git }

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2014 by Jeff Geerling, the author of Ansible for DevOps.