# Anyway to choose a particular playbook for ansible-pull.

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/anyway-to-choose-a-particular-playbook-for-ansible-pull/24703>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [June 12, 2017, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/anyway-to-choose-a-particular-playbook-for-ansible-pull/24703 "2017-06-12T18:50:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![james3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@james3](https://forum.ansible.com/u/james3)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/anyway-to-choose-a-particular-playbook-for-ansible-pull/24703/1 "2017-06-12T18:50:22Z")

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Right now it looks like ansible-pull makes assumptions about the playbook name. Basically assume all playbooks are in different repos?

Might end up just git cloning our repo instead.

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**Author:** ![sivel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/sivel/32/1198_2.png) [@sivel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sivel)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/anyway-to-choose-a-particular-playbook-for-ansible-pull/24703/2 "2017-06-12T18:53:55Z")

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ansible-pull whatever.yml

Usage: ansible-pull -U [options] [\<playbook.yml\>]

If no positional args are specified it tries some alternatives, such as hostname, short hostname, and localhost.