How to pull code from local machine

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I do not have remote git repo, only a local one. Is it possible to pull a local repo to a remote machine?

I tried the following:

`

  • name: pull the code
    git: repo=file:///home/username/myproject/.git dest=/var/www

`

and got an error:

`
stderr: fatal: ‘/home/username/myproject/.git’ does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

`

2

stderr: fatal: '/home/username/myproject/.git' does not appear to be a git repository fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Have you tried if the actual git command succeeds?

git clone file:///home/username/myproject/.git

I suspect that it should be:

git clone file:///home/username/myproject

Cheers,
Paul

3

The docs for the module don’t specifically mention local repos, but I can’t see anything that would prevent it and it worked for me. I think you just need to remove the trailing .git in the repo specification. Try:

  • name: pull the code
    git: repo=file:///home/username/myproject/ dest=/var/www
4

“Is it possible to pull a local repo to a remote machine?”

Not directly.

You could check out locally and use the synchronize module instead.

5

Sorry, disregard my comment - I misread the question. I missed the reference to the remote machine and was assuming all directories mentioned were local, and the play was being executed with ‘-c local’. This does seem to work, but probably isn’t what is being requested.

6

Yeah don’t use -c local if just some of your machines are local

  • hosts: localhost
    connection: local
    tasks:

  • …

  • hosts: other
    tasks:

  • …

You can also set ansible_connection=local as an inventory variable.

Ansible will assume localhost means local if not explicitly defined in inventory.