salt stack - Python Saltstack: How can I manage a file which is in a git repo? -

i have configuration file, config.py in git repository. has dev-specific configuration settings.

i have same file managed file in salt, has production-specific configurations.

the configuration directive file looks this:

python_config:   file.managed:     - name: /opt/github/python_config/config.py     - source: salt://configs/config.py     - makedirs: true 

because /opt/github git repository, whenever try update directory, error: "you local changes python_config/config.py overwritten merge."

here salt directive github repo looks like:

code:     git.latest:         - name: {{ pillar['git_repo'] }}         - rev: {{ pillar['git_rev'] }}         - target: {{ pillar['source_path'] }}         - force: true         - require:             - pkg: app-pkgs             - file: deploykey             - file: publickey             - file: ssh_config 

this error makes sense - i've checked out repository, made change (via managed file), new changes dev-specific config file cause issues.

how can force salt perform tasks in specific order? (eg, issue git checkout config.py before proceeding with git pull?)

alternately, there better/different way should manage prod-vs-dev configuration in salt?

your best bet here use gitfs backend.

docs can found here: http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/tutorials/gitfs.html

this allows use git backend file_roots.

each git branch , tag becomes salt environment, map nicely production , dev configurations.

this remove need git.latest state declaration.

python_config:   file.managed:     - name: /opt/github/python_config/config.py     - source: salt://configs/config.py     - makedirs: true