Git

The Git plugin is able to interact with Git repos through Packer.

Installation

To install this plugin, copy and paste this code into your Packer configuration, then run packer init.

packer {
  required_plugins {
    git = {
      version = ">= 0.4.3"
      source  = "github.com/ethanmdavidson/git"
    }
  }
}

Alternatively, you can use packer plugins install to manage installation of this plugin.

$ packer plugins install github.com/ethanmdavidson/git

Components

Data Sources

• git-commit - Retrieve information about a specific commit, e.g. the commit hash.
• git-repository - Retrieve information about a repository, e.g. the value of HEAD.
• git-tree - Retrieve the list of files present in a specific commit, similar to git ls-tree -r.