On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 4:04 PM Mauricio Tavares <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> So I am using the git module to get two packages I am building
> locally. First one, a library, I download and then run the make module
> and built it (without installing. I will include the library as is).
> That works fine. I can run the playbook all day and it will not try to
> reinstall or recompile unless there is something new.
>
> The second package I also get using the git module,
>
> - name: Download thing
>   git:
>     repo: https://github.com/example/thing
>     dest: "{{ dev_dir }}/thingi"
>
> Like the email I posted earlier today, I configure the thing (I
> decided to break it apart):
>
> - name: configure thing build
>   command:
>     cmd: ./configure --with_that-lib=/path/to/the/lib
>     args:
>       chdir: dev/thing
>
> Let's ignore building the thing for now. When I run the playbook for
> the first time, thing is downloaded and configured. When I run it the
> second time, it fails in the download task. The error I am getting is
>
> "Local modifications exist in repository (force=no)."
>
> What would be the best way to deal with this? I did try adding
>
>     separate_git_dir: "{{ dev_dir }}/thing.git"
>
> thinking that all it wanted is to have a git dir separate from the dir
> I am using to build it, but no dice.

Update: 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41178361/how-to-use-ansible-git-module-pull-a-branch-with-local-changes
showed me what was going on. Thanks for all the help!

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