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Extending Puppet
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Extending Puppet

by Alessandro Franceschi
June 2014
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
7h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Git workflows

If we want to work and prosper with Git, we have to grasp its principles. There are theories and some alternatives on how we can manage our Puppet code with Git in a safe and comfortable way.

In this section, we will review:

  • Git's basic principles and commands
  • Some useful Git hooks
  • Two different workflows for Puppet code management with Git

Git's basic principles and commands

Git is generally available as a native package in every modern OS. Once we have installed it, we can configure our name and e-mail (that will appear in all our commits) with the following:

git config --global user.name "Alessandro Franceschi"
git config --global user.email al@lab42.it

These commands simply create the relevant entries in the ~/.gitconfig file. We can ...

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ISBN: 9781783981441