# ansible-pull only does "git pull" on first run, then uses same revision forever

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-pull-only-does-git-pull-on-first-run-then-uses-same-revision-forever/21589>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [May 27, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-pull-only-does-git-pull-on-first-run-then-uses-same-revision-forever/21589 "2016-05-27T22:48:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![david.stelter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@david.stelter](https://forum.ansible.com/u/david.stelter)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-pull-only-does-git-pull-on-first-run-then-uses-same-revision-forever/21589/1 "2016-05-27T22:48:42Z")

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I’m finding that the first ansible-pull run works perfect, but if I run it again after the initial run to get updates it continues to use the same revision. I’m working around it by using the --purge flag, but I think that means a full clone every time instead of just a pull. I’m invoking it like so: “/usr/local/bin/ansible-pull --purge --extra-vars=‘some\_vars=“some values”’ -U [https://git-codecommit.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/v1/repos/blah](https://git-codecommit.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/v1/repos/blah) ‘dir/node-role.yml’”

Is this expected? Should I be filing a bug?

Versions:  
ansible-pull: 2.1.0.0

python: 2.7.10  
Amazon Linux