[TYPO3-dev] Extension Updates and Version Control

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi,

> I know, but I think its folish not to support version control better, so
> this thread was meant to start a discussion on topic.

Version control is properly supported but you are trying to mix two ways 
of handling extensions. Either you use TER and may use the associated 
tools to update extensions within EM or you want to use bleeding-edge 
features of an extension and choose to check it out from SVN or Git or 
whatever.

Now, for this later case, you have to remember that you are using a 
"special" version of the extension and one way of remembering that this 
is the case is to manually update the corresponding ext_emconf.php file 
to change the state to "excludeFromUpdates".

You will ask how to update your extension from within BE without having 
to log into your server I guess? Easy! Just use extension np_subversion 
and enjoy!

Cheers

-- 
Xavier Perseguers
Release Manager TYPO3 4.6

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