[salt-users] Install dev salt instance from git repo clone

On Nov 3, 2014, at 10:49 AM, Tanoti wrote:

I've been reading the docs about installing a dev Salt instance from a git clone so I can do some more hacking (http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/development/hacking.html) and so far so good. Due to the way the server is built, I have the repo in my home directory and the dev salt instance is installed in a system area using virtualenv as instructed. I can't work out how to specify which branch of my clone to use in the "pip install -e /path/to/clone/salt" command? Also, what is the best way to sync changes in the repo to the dev instance, do I just copy and overwrite the file?

Any help appreciated :)

John

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On Nov 20, 2014, at 2:15 AM, Tanoti wrote:

Colton,

Many thanks for the reply. After some digging I realised what was going on with the symlinks. I supposed it's because I am not that familiar with git but I'm not too clear on how to ensure that the salt instance sees the correct files for a branch if all it is looking at is the repo area? If I create a local branch for a feature and make some changes, I realise that the salt instance will see those modified files. If I want to then switch back to the clean develop branch for comparison and run against that, or create a second feature branch, how do I switch so that the salt instance is seeing the files in the correct state?

Many thanks,
John

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