Local edits to recipes get overwritten by chef-client execution

Question

I am a dev tasked with making some changes to the cookbooks owned by the devops team. We don't have access to knife or the chef server.

I tried to make some local changes to a recipe to try it out. But, when I run:

$ sudo chef-client --log_level debug

the local changes to the recipe are overriden by what's on the server.

Is there a way to quickly test minor changes to recipes without fetching them from the chef server?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Just add --skip-cookbook-sync parameter to your command:

$ sudo chef-client --log_level debug --skip-cookbook-sync