Merge pull request #2116 from opscode/jdmundrawala/git-centos

Support checkout for git < 1.7.3

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/chef/provider/git.rb b/lib/chef/provider/git.rb
index aa58fdc4a1..9a2e6e2291 100644
--- a/lib/chef/provider/git.rb
+++ b/lib/chef/provider/git.rb
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ class Chef
 
         converge_by("checkout ref #{sha_ref} branch #{@new_resource.revision}") do
           # checkout into a local branch rather than a detached HEAD
-          shell_out!("git checkout -B #{@new_resource.checkout_branch} #{sha_ref}", run_options(:cwd => @new_resource.destination))
+          shell_out!("git branch -f #{@new_resource.checkout_branch} #{sha_ref}; git checkout #{@new_resource.checkout_branch}", run_options(:cwd => @new_resource.destination))
           Chef::Log.info "#{@new_resource} checked out branch: #{@new_resource.revision} onto: #{@new_resource.checkout_branch} reference: #{sha_ref}"
         end
       end