Hi @fnichol,

I've been trying to build a Vagrant box with chef-homesick and I'm getting a problem during bootstrap... It is clear to me that it is doing a successful "clone", but also is doing an "update" as well and fails to do the "pull"... I'm guessing the sequence is incorrect...

My environment is:
mdesales@Marcello-Work ~/dev/workboxes/cfp-workbox (master) $ ruby --version
ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-darwin12.5.0]
homesick-0.9.7
*** Chef 10.30.2 ***
Vagrant 1.4.1
Ubuntu 13.04

Here's the log of the error

uccessfully installed homesick-0.9.7
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for homesick-0.9.7...
rdoc --ri --op /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/doc/homesick-0.9.7/ri lib ChangeLog.markdown LICENSE README.markdown --title homesick-0.9.7 Documentation --quiet
Installing RDoc documentation for homesick-0.9.7...
rdoc --op /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/doc/homesick-0.9.7/rdoc lib ChangeLog.markdown LICENSE README.markdown --title homesick-0.9.7 Documentation --quiet
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
vim is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
[default] Running provisioner: chef_solo...
Generating chef JSON and uploading...
Running chef-solo...
stdin: is not a tty
stdin: is not a tty
[2013-12-25T22:39:52+00:00] INFO: *** Chef 10.30.2 ***
[2013-12-25T22:39:52+00:00] INFO: Setting the run_list to ["recipe[apache2]", "recipe[homesick]", "recipe[zsh]", "recipe[oh-my-zsh]", "recipe[users::ruby_shadow]", "recipe[users::sysadmins]", "recipe[users::sysadmin_sudo]", "recipe[homesick_agent::data_bag]", "recipe[root_ssh_agent::ppid]", "recipe[ssh_known_hosts]"] from JSON

2013-12-25T22:39:55+00:00] INFO: execute[ssh -A -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no mdesales@localhost 'PATH=$PATH:/opt/vagrant_ruby/bin homesick clone git://github.com/marcellodesales/dotpickles.git --force'] ran successfully

Error executing action run on resource 'execute[ssh -A -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no mdesales@localhost 'PATH=$PATH:/opt/vagrant_ruby/bin homesick pull dotfiles --force']'

Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed

Expected process to exit with [0], but received '1'
---- Begin output of ssh -A -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no mdesales@localhost 'PATH=$PATH:/opt/vagrant_ruby/bin homesick pull dotfiles --force' ----
STDOUT: error Could not pull dotfiles, expected /home/mdesales/.homesick/repos/dotfiles/home exist and contain dotfiles
STDERR: Warning: Permanently added 'localhost' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
---- End output of ssh -A -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no mdesales@localhost 'PATH=$PATH:/opt/vagrant_ruby/bin homesick pull dotfiles --force' ----
Ran ssh -A -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no mdesales@localhost 'PATH=$PATH:/opt/vagrant_ruby/bin homesick pull dotfiles --force' returned 1

Resource Declaration:

In /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/homesick_agent/libraries/castle_agent.rb

39: execute remote_command
40: end

Compiled Resource:

Declared in /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/homesick_agent/libraries/castle_agent.rb:39:in `run_with_agent'

execute("ssh -A -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no mdesales@localhost 'PATH=$PATH:/opt/vagrant_ruby/bin homesick pull dotfiles --force'") do
action "run"
retries 0
retry_delay 2
command "ssh -A -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no mdesales@localhost 'PATH=$PATH:/opt/vagrant_ruby/bin homesick pull dotfiles --force'"
backup 5
returns 0
cookbook_name :homesick
end

[2013-12-25T22:39:55+00:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
[2013-12-25T22:39:55+00:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
[2013-12-25T22:39:55+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
[2013-12-25T22:39:55+00:00] FATAL: Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed: execute[ssh -A -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no mdesales@localhost 'PATH=$PATH:/opt/vagrant_ruby/bin homesick pull dotfiles --force'](/tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/homesick_agent/libraries/castle_agent.rb line 39) had an error: Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed: Expected process to exit with [0], but received '1'
---- Begin output of ssh -A -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no mdesales@localhost 'PATH=$PATH:/opt/vagrant_ruby/bin homesick pull dotfiles --force' ----
STDOUT: error Could not pull dotfiles, expected /home/mdesales/.homesick/repos/dotfiles/home exist and contain dotfiles
STDERR: Warning: Permanently added 'localhost' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
---- End output of ssh -A -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no mdesales@localhost 'PATH=$PATH:/opt/vagrant_ruby/bin homesick pull dotfiles --force' ----
Ran ssh -A -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no mdesales@localhost 'PATH=$PATH:/opt/vagrant_ruby/bin homesick pull dotfiles --force' returned 1
Chef never successfully completed! Any errors should be visible in the
output above. Please fix your recipes so that they properly complete.

It would be cool if I could choose the branch to use from the git repo, via an additional attribute called branch maybe.