chef git resource fails when local tags differ from remote

[digorgonzola]

Describe the Enhancement:

Allow a way to pass optional git parameters to the git resource. In our case, since git 2.20, the default behaviour is not to clobber local tags however this causes a sync to fail on a repo of the remote tags have changed.

Describe the Need:

Include a force option that will allow the user to clobber local tags.

Current Alternative

Our hacky way of fixing this is to pass the following environment variable along with the git resource:

git 'some_directory' do
  repository some_repo
  revision master
  action :sync
  environment ({ 'GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS' => "'remote.origin.fetch=+refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*'" })
end

Can We Help You Implement This?:

I'm pretty new to ruby and chef but happy to give it a shot!