This is a little thread to discuss the issue that I opened on github. - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/8917
This would enable people to specify how long the local cache version of a > repo is valid for (default would be 0 meaning things are always pulled from > the remote). > > This would mean that if the version: was set to a branch or tag name (or > maybe even a hash) we would only look at checking out the most recent > version in the local repo, unless the cache time was invalid. > > This would drastically speed up / give the options to speed up ansible > playbooks that have a lot of git module / repo usage. > mpdehaan was having a little trouble understanding my first explantation and suggested I post / discuss here, so I have! To explain a little further: Example 1 - If the cache_valid_time of a git module task is set to 0 the task would pull / update every time the task was run Example 2 - If the cache_valid_time of a git module task was set to 1d (1day) the repo would only ever be pulled / updated at most once a day. In example 1 you are guaranteed to, for example, always have the newest commit from a branch when your version is set to a branch In example 2 you are not always guaranteed to have the latest commit from a branch, but you are guaranteed that you branch will only ever be 1 day behind. I am aware git doesn't really have a concept of caching in this way but I see no issue with building this nice feature into ansible. As written in my issue on github this give users the option to drastically speed up playbooks that have a lot of git module tasks (for example one playbook that I work on has over 100 git module tasks) Currently the above mentioned playbook tags all of the git module tasks with the tag 'slow'. The cron that then runs the playbook runs the whole playbook with --skip-tags="slow" on the 10,20,30,40,50 mins of an hour and runs the whole playbook (including slow tags) at 0 every hour. My idea is a much nicer way of effectively doing the same! Does anyone have any comments, further thoughts or different ideas? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/962ac9d6-26ec-4974-8db2-66fadd182eb1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
