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Every vcsrepo has a defaultfor defaultfor :command => :exists. In this case, I’m wondering if it makes sense not to have any defaults since the end user most likely have to be explicit about provider rather than haphazardly depend what’s on the system.

I get this message on a system that only has git installed, yet it still picks the default as ‘svn’.

I agree with Nan Liu’s comment 5 months ago, there is no sense is guessing what the provider should be, the type of repository should just be a required parameter.

I just posted about this in #16598 — reading the code, I suspect there’s a way we can mark which provider will be the default in the event of multiple providers being “suitable” (meaning: they have the requisite binaries available).

This does not appear to have anything to do with not specifying a provider in an instance of vcsrepo — rather, puppet’s types system always wants to figure what might be the default provider for a type.