documentation for git_client resource about git

[borgified]

i was able to use it by putting this in my recipe

git_client 'default' do
  provider Chef::Provider::GitClient::Source
  source_checksum '1497001772f630d49809e981672edfe3e3ce1a1d18e905cd539c4d2f4dbcd75a'
  source_url 'https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.13.3.tar.gz'
  source_version '2.13.3'
end

this is the resulting output

         * git_client[default] action install
         Recipe: build-essential::default
           * build_essential[install_packages] action install
             * yum_package[autoconf, bison, flex, gcc, gcc-c++, gettext, kernel-devel, make, m4, ncurses-devel, patch] action install (up to date)
       (up to date)
           * yum_package[tar, expat-devel, gettext-devel, libcurl-devel, openssl-devel, perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker, zlib-devel] action install (up to date)
           * remote_file[/tmp/kitchen/cache/git-2.13.3.tar.gz] action create
             - create new file /tmp/kitchen/cache/git-2.13.3.tar.gz
             - update content in file /tmp/kitchen/cache/git-2.13.3.tar.gz from none to 149700
             (new content is binary, diff output suppressed)
             - change mode from '' to '0644'
             - restore selinux security context
           * execute[Extracting and Building Git 2.13.3 from Source] action run
             - execute     (mkdir git-2.13.3 && tar -zxf git-2.13.3.tar.gz -C git-2.13.3 --strip-components 1)
          (cd git-2.13.3 && make prefix=/usr/local  install)

[tas50]

I’m adding the Type: Jump In GitHub label to this issue. This is a great issue for someone to get their feet wet with and we’d love a PR to resolves the issue.

[eheydrick]

@giorgian normally all you need is just the action :install to get an appropriate package for the platform you are on. If you want to install from source you can use the source provider like @borgified mentioned. You can also use the source recipe and set attributes for the version you wish to install. I opened up #124 to document using git_client to install from source.