Git Data Sources

The Git plugin is able to fetch data from Git repositories. The following data sources are currently supported:

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

How to use this plugin

From Packer v1.7.0, copy and paste this code into your Packer configuration to install this plugin. Then, run packer init.

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

Manual Installation

You can find pre-built binary releases of the plugin here.

Alternatively, if you prefer to build the plugin from its source code, clone the GitHub repository locally and run the command make build from the root directory. Upon successful compilation, a packer-plugin-git plugin binary file can be found in the root directory.

Once the binary is downloaded or built, please follow the Packer documentation on installing a plugin.