Rename edx-platform version variables

playbooks/roles/edxapp/tasks/deploy.yml

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 # Do A Checkout
 - name: git checkout edx-platform repo into $app_base_dir
-  git: dest={{edx_platform_code_dir}} repo={{lms_source_repo}} version={{lms_version}}
+  git: dest={{edx_platform_code_dir}} repo={{edx_platform_repo}} version={{edx_platform_commit}}
   tags:
   - lms
   - cms

playbooks/roles/edxapp/vars/main.yml

@@ -198,8 +198,10 @@ edxapp_theme_source_repo: 'https://github.com/Stanford-Online/edx-theme.git'
 edxapp_theme_version: 'HEAD'
 
 # make this the public URL instead of writable
-lms_source_repo: https://github.com/edx/edx-platform.git
-lms_version: 'release'
+edx_platform_repo: https://github.com/edx/edx-platform.git
+# `edx_platform_commit` can be anything that git recognizes as a commit
+# reference, including a tag, a branch name, or a commit hash
+edx_platform_commit: 'release'
 local_requirements_file:  "{{ edx_platform_code_dir }}/requirements/edx/local.txt"
 pre_requirements_file:    "{{ edx_platform_code_dir }}/requirements/edx/pre.txt"
 post_requirements_file:   "{{ edx_platform_code_dir }}/requirements/edx/post.txt"

vagrant/shortstack/Vagrantfile

@@ -19,5 +19,8 @@ Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
     ansible.playbook = "../../playbooks/vagrant-shortstack.yml"
     ansible.inventory_path = "../../playbooks/vagrant/inventory.ini"
     ansible.verbose = "extra"
+    # to target the master branch of edx-platform, instead of the release branch,
+    # just uncomment this line
+    # ansible.extra_vars = { edx_platform_commit: "master" }
   end
 end