From 64d5cc8c1f6e7ef5382195196a853bb98c9a8618 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Avery Kiihne <Avery.Kiihne@an103.princeton.rdhpcs.noaa.gov>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 16:50:13 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] git fixes

---
 fre/pp/checkoutScript.py | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fre/pp/checkoutScript.py b/fre/pp/checkoutScript.py
index dc8f08af..55e4870e 100644
--- a/fre/pp/checkoutScript.py
+++ b/fre/pp/checkoutScript.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 #############################################
 
-def _checkoutTemplate(experiment, platform, target, branch='main'):
+def _checkoutTemplate(experiment, platform, target):
     """
     Checkout the workflow template files from the repo
     """
@@ -53,10 +53,7 @@ def _checkoutTemplate(experiment, platform, target, branch='main'):
     cloneproc = subprocess.run(clonecmd, shell=True, check=False, stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT)
 
     if branch == 'main':
-        local_version = subprocess.run(['fre' ,'--version'])
-        if local_version != '2024.01':
-            subprocess.run(['git' ,'checkout' ,'tags/2024.01'])
-
+        subprocess.run('git checkout tags/2024.01')
     if not cloneproc.returncode == 0:
         if re.search(preexist_error.encode('ASCII'),cloneproc.stdout) is not None:
             argstring = f" -e {experiment} -p {platform} -t {target}"