gistfile1.txt

ansible-git-repo:
  git.latest:
    - name: ssh://git@stash.pv.company.com:7999/wd/ansible.git
    - rev: master
    - target: /opt/ansible-git-repo
    - identity: salt://ssh/etc/keys/wd.key

[salt@salt /usr/local/etc/salt/states]$ salt 'jenkins-slave1.*' state.sls jenkins.ansible -v
Executing job with jid 20161104111732079230
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jenkins-slave1.pv.wiredrive.com:
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          ID: ansible-git-repo
    Function: git.latest
        Name: ssh://git@stash.pv.company.com:7999/wd/ansible.git
      Result: False
     Comment: identity 'salt://ssh/etc/keys/wd.key' is not an absolute path
     Started: 10:21:53.426696
    Duration: 0.622 ms
     Changes:   
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Summary for jenkins-slave1.pv.company.com
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Succeeded: 0 (changed=1)
Failed:    1
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Total states run:     1
Total run time:  75.369 ms
ERROR: Minions returned with non-zero exit code

[salt@salt /usr/local/etc/salt/states]$ stat ssh/etc/keys/wd.key 
1939526710 459841 -rw-r--r-- 1 salt salt 4294967295 1675 "Apr  8 15:19:10 2016" "Apr  8 15:19:10 2016" "Apr  8 15:19:10 2016" "Apr  8 15:19:10 2016" 4096 9 0x800 ssh/etc/keys/wd.key