Puppet: vcsrepo with git , different request format between Ubuntu and CentOS - linux

Question

This is the code I have in my puppetmaster
class mediawiki {
$phpmysql = $osfamily ? {
'redhat' => 'php-mysql',
'debian' => 'php5-mysql',
default => 'php-mysql',
}
package { $phpmysql:
ensure => 'present',
}
if $osfamily == 'redhat' {
package {'php-xml':
ensure => 'present',
}
}
class { '::apache':
docroot => '/var/www/html',
mpm_module => 'prefork',
subscribe => Package[$phpmysql],
}
class { '::apache::mod::php': }
vcsrepo {'/var/www/html':
ensure => 'present',
provider => 'git',
source => "https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki.git",
revision => 'REL1_23',
}
And when I execute puppet agent with debug enabled as below
puppet agent --debug --verbose --no-daemonize --onetime
I could see that CentOS and Ubuntu puppet agents are sending request to Git in different ways and for Ubuntu I am able to pull the code from Git but for CentOS its failing with wrong revision number as below
Error: /Stage[main]/Mediawiki/Vcsrepo[/var/www/html]: Could not evaluate: Execution of '/usr/bin/git rev-parse HEAD' returned 128: fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
HEAD
CentOS Debug Log
Debug: /Stage[main]/Linux/File[/info.txt]: The container Class[Linux] will propagate my refresh event
Debug: /Stage[main]/Mediawiki/File[/var/www/html/index.html]: Nothing to manage: no ensure and the resource doesn't exist
Debug: Executing '/usr/bin/git config --get remote.origin.url'
Debug: Executing '/usr/bin/git remote'
Debug: Executing '/usr/bin/git config --get remote.origin.url'
Debug: Executing '/usr/bin/git fetch origin'
Debug: Executing '/usr/bin/git fetch --tags origin'
Debug: Executing '/usr/bin/git rev-parse HEAD'
Error: /Stage[main]/Mediawiki/Vcsrepo[/var/www/html]: Could not evaluate: Execution of '/usr/bin/git rev-parse HEAD' returned 128: fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
HEAD
Ubuntu Debug Log
Debug: /Stage[main]/Mediawiki/File[/var/www/html/index.html]: Nothing to manage: no ensure and the resource doesn't exist
Debug: Executing '/usr/bin/git config --get remote.origin.url'
Debug: Executing '/usr/bin/git remote'
Debug: Executing '/usr/bin/git config --get remote.origin.url'
Debug: Executing '/usr/bin/git fetch origin'
Debug: Executing '/usr/bin/git fetch --tags origin'
Debug: Executing '/usr/bin/git rev-parse HEAD'
Debug: Executing '/usr/bin/git tag -l'
Debug: Executing '/usr/bin/git branch -a'
Debug: Executing '/usr/bin/git rev-parse REL1_23'
Dont know why CentOS looking it differently.
Thank you.

Answer 1

My internet connection broken while trying for my first checkout with git into /var/www/html directory and from 2nd attempt onward I have received that error.
I have removed complete /var/www/html with
rm -rf /var/www/html
and issued
puppet agent --verbose --no-daemonize --onetime
and its worked fine.