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

[Adrien Crivelli]

Hi,

I feel I should emphasis that what i suggested, modifying .git/config (not
.gitmodules) will never be versionned. It is not a fork. It is a *local
configuration* which override suggested submodule URL found in .gitmodules.
So you still have a *100% identical mirrors*. But the setup of your local
websites is more complex because you need to edit that file for
every website. I guess you could use some script to automate that. That
would probably be easy to do with *find* and *sed* commands.

I am not saying that's a perfect solution (far from it), but it's different
than directly modifying .gitmodules.

Good luck anyway :)

Adrien


On 9 August 2012 18:33, Lieuwe Hummel <l.hummel at drecomm.nl> wrote:

> 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<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<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/913701/changing-remote-repository-for-a-git-submodule>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ernesto
>>
>>
>
> --
> Lieuwe Hummel
>
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