git

Deploys software (or files) from git checkouts.

parameter	required	default	comments
repo	yes		git, ssh, or http protocol address of the git repo
dest	yes		absolute path of where the repo should be checked out to
version	no	HEAD	what version to check out -- either the git SHA, the literal string 'HEAD', branch name, or a tag name.
remote	no	origin	name of the remote branch
force	no	yes	(new in 0.7) If yes, any modified files in the working repository will be discarded. Prior to 0.7, this was always 'yes' and could not be disabled.

Example action from Ansible playbooks:

git repo=git://foosball.example.org/path/to/repo.git dest=/srv/checkout version=release-0.22