Ansible Role: Git

This role installs Git, a system for tracking changes in files, on RHEL/CentOS or Debian/Ubuntu Linux systems.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

Here are the available settings (variables) you can use:

workspace: /root

This is where files will be downloaded and set up before installing Git, if necessary.

git_enablerepo: ""

Use this variable along with git_packages to install Git from a specific yum repository if git_install_from_source is false (for CentOS only). You can add other repositories for a newer or different version of Git.

git_packages:
  - git

These are the Git packages that will be installed. By default, only git is included, but you can add other Git-related packages like git-svn if you want.

git_install_from_source: false
git_install_path: "/usr"
git_version: "2.26.0"

This setting determines if Git should be installed from the source code. If set to true, you need to specify git_version for the specific version of Git you want to install (see available versions here: 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 there is an older version of Git already installed, this forces a new build from source but only applies if git_install_from_source is true.

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.