I set force to yes, and it is still happening. On Wednesday, November 1, 2017 at 12:39:32 PM UTC-6, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > Ansible is stateless. So it doesn't know if the remote file exists in > the way you have it because you changed it on the remote system or > because a previous ansible run dropped that version of hte file there. > If you want Ansible to ensure that the remote file matches what you > have at your source then you must have force: yes. If you want > ansible to always respect remote changes then you have force: no. > > You can come up with your own method to track remote state to > determine whether to overwrite the file or not (by taking a hash of > previous files pushed out by ansible and saving it somewhere for > comparison in the future) you certainly can write several tasks to > take care of that but that is outside of the scope of what's built > into Ansible. > > -Toshio > > On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 9:00 AM, John Harmon <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > Yes, but the contents of the file change.... the force option is set > that > > way on purpose so I don't overwrite any local changes if they exist. > > > > On Wednesday, November 1, 2017 at 9:59:30 AM UTC-6, Brian Coca wrote: > >> > >> force: no prevents a copy if the dest file exists > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> ---------- > >> Brian Coca > > > > -- > > 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 [email protected] <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/742ab2e7-8d00-488d-becd-6546d408668e%40googlegroups.com. > > > > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >
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