gitfs_remotes in salt, how to reference properly in the sls file? file is served but cant reference

Question

I am having a dilemma that salt documentation cant help me solve. I am trying to to get a file from a git repo and than manage file in the sls. I have configured the master in the following way:

gitfs_provider: pygit2
fileserver_backend:
 - git
 - roots
file_roots:
  base:
    - /srv/salt/
  dev:
    - /srv/salt/dev/
  int:
    - /srv/salt/int/
  qa:
    - /srv/salt/qa/
  stg:
    - /srv/salt/stg/
  prod:
    - /srv/salt/prod/

I have one remote specified:

gitfs_remotes:
- https://server.com/path/to/repo.git:
  - user: salt
  - password: salt
  - root: path/to/file/in/git
  - mountpoint: salt://dev

In my sls i have the following, and only entry:

jbiam.yaml:
 file.managed:
- name: /srv/salt/dev/files/application.yml
- source: salt://application.yml
- user: root
- group: root
- mode: 655
- template: jinja
- defaults:
    bla: "bla"

I execute highstate for the dev environment:

salt '*' state.highstate env=dev

now, not matter what i put in the source, path wise, it never finds the file I am lost at the moment.... If i add the file into the root of the salt fs, things work as expected. but with gitfs it is just not working. If i remove the mount point from git remote config and run the highstate without the environment things work as expected, but as soon as I introduce the environment, it cant find the file

when i run salt-run fileserver.file_list i see the file listed:

salt-run fileserver.file_list
 [DEBUG   ] Configuration file path: /etc/salt/master
 [WARNING ] Insecure logging configuration detected! Sensitive data may be logged.
 [DEBUG   ] LazyLoaded fileserver.file_list
 [DEBUG   ] Reading configuration from /etc/salt/master
 [DEBUG   ] Guessing ID. The id can be explicitly set in /etc/salt/minion
 [DEBUG   ] Found minion id from generate_minion_id(): bla
 [DEBUG   ] Reading configuration from /etc/salt/master
 [DEBUG   ] MasterEvent PUB socket URI: /var/run/salt/master         /master_event_pub.ipc
 [DEBUG   ] MasterEvent PULL socket URI: /var/run/salt/master   /master_event_pull.ipc
 [DEBUG   ] Initializing new IPCClient for path: /var/run/salt/master/master_event_pull.ipc
  [DEBUG   ] Sending event - data = {'fun': 'runner.fileserver.file_list', 'jid': '20160830220634591807', 'user': 'root', '_stamp': '2016-08-31T02:06:35.031018'}
 [DEBUG   ] pygit2 gitfs_provider enabled
 [DEBUG   ] LazyLoaded git.envs
 [DEBUG   ] LazyLoaded roots.envs
 [DEBUG   ] LazyLoaded nested.output
 - .git/HEAD
 - .git/config
 - .git/description
 - .git/hooks/applypatch-msg.sample
 - .git/hooks/commit-msg.sample
 - .git/hooks/post-update.sample
 - .git/hooks/pre-applypatch.sample
 - .git/hooks/pre-commit.sample
 - .git/hooks/pre-push.sample
 - .git/hooks/pre-rebase.sample
 - .git/hooks/prepare-commit-msg.sample
 - .git/hooks/update.sample
 - .git/index
 - .git/info/exclude
 - .git/logs/HEAD
 - .git/logs/refs/heads/master
 - .git/logs/refs/remotes/origin/HEAD
 - .git/objects/pack/pack-280ac298a92c1fde082a7d7d84da86d855720a3a.idx
 - .git/objects/pack/pack-280ac298a92c1fde082a7d7d84da86d855720a3a.pack
 - .git/packed-refs
 - .git/refs/heads/master
 - .git/refs/remotes/origin/HEAD
 - .gitignore
 - dev/application.yml
 - dev/bootstrap.yml

However the I just cant reference it when i run it:

site.com:
  ----------
      ID: /srv/salt/dev/files/application.yml
Function: file.managed
  Result: False
 Comment: Source file salt://application.yml not found
 Started: 22:31:29.496613
Duration: 33.199 ms
 Changes:

 Summary for site.com
  ------------
 Succeeded: 0
 Failed:    1
  ------------
 Total states run:     1

Thank You in advance

Answer 1

have you tried it with dev in the source URI?

jbiam.yaml:
  file.managed:
    - name: /srv/salt/dev/files/application.yml
    - source: salt://dev/application.yml

Answer 2

You never stated which git branch you are using. My guess is that you just have it in the "master" branch.

Keep in mind that gitfs maps branches/tags to fileserver environments. So when you ran salt-run fileserver.file_list, you were listing the files in the base fileserver environment (which maps to the master branch).

When you later run using env=dev (note: newer Salt releases require saltenv instead of env), you are telling Salt to pull the file from the dev branch/tag.

My best guess here is that you have your files in the master branch, when you need them in a branch called dev to reference them using saltenv=dev.