[TYPO3-dev] local git mirror og TYPO3 core & submodules

[Lieuwe Hummel]

Hi Ernesto, Adrien,

Thanks for your replies and information. I made a quick analysis of the 
proposed solution to change the .gitmodules. My thoughts are to change 
the .gitmodules file to reflect the repository location to our server, 
commit the change and to retreive the community changes with git pull 
--rebase.
It does not feel right for me for a few reasons:
  - first of all, it's not a 100% clone anymore
  - we checkout a tag, which points to a commit without the change in
    the .gitmodules file. It will not help us.
  - We could merge the community changes, but that will definitely give
    us conflicts somewhere in the future.

Unless I'm missing something, I think it is not easy to set it up for 
many websites. For now, I'm thinking to mirror the TYPO3v4/Core.git 
repository and leave the core submodules pointing to git.typo3.org
My main decission point is gained advantage <-> ease to use and maintain.

Regards,
Lieuwe


On 08-08-2012 09:55, Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] wrote:
> Adrien Crivelli schrieb am 08.08.2012 09:31:
>
>>> The URLs of the submodules are part of the
>>> repository itself (file .gitmodules, which is versioned just like every
>>> other stuff).
>>
>>
>> Actually, yes and no. Yes the file is indeed versionned, but it is possible
>> to "override" those URL locally in the file .git/config. So it would be
>> possible to point to a local mirror of submodules. But it must be done for
>> each local clone of TYPO3 Core which probably is not convenient... at
>> all... but at least you have no forking, thus no conflicts.
>>
>> This "overriding" mechanism is one of the reason "git submodule sync"
>> exists (see the man
>> page<http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-submodule.html>
>> )
>
> Good pointer, thanks for the hint! Here is another useful resource of
> information I just found using your bit of information:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/913701/changing-remote-repository-for-a-git-submodule
>
> Cheers,
> Ernesto
>


-- 
Lieuwe Hummel