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Mastering Puppet
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Mastering Puppet

by Thomas Uphill
July 2014
Beginner
280 pages
5h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using GitHub for public modules

If you have a module you wish to use that is only hosted on GitHub, (github.com is an online Git service for sharing code using Git) a good way to keep your modules organized is to create a local Git repository and make the GitHub module a submodule of your modules.

We'll start by creating a new Git repository for our public modules:

git@worker1$ git init --bare --shared=group public.git
Initialized empty shared Git repository in /var/lib/git/public.git/

Tip

If your Git user still has git-shell set as its login shell from the previous chapter, change it back to bash, as shown in the following commands:

# chsh -s /bin/bash git
Changing shell for git.
Shell changed.

The first module we will download from GitHub is ...

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ISBN: 9781783982189