[TYPO3-core] Update git submodules (automatically) in core git repository?

[Roland]

thanks for clarification.

is there a way to show "the current" status of CGL violations for 
submodules on metrics.typo3.org?

i think that there are two or three CGL rules that could be activated in 
jenkins - but i am not sure if we missed some of the violations in the 
submodules. because of the situation you described we have no helping 
feedback here on metrics.typo3.org.

any suggestions how we can handle this? would be good if we could 
activate those CGL rules in jenkins so that no new violations against 
these rules will be introduced.

kind regards.

roland



Am 22.06.12 09:02, schrieb Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]:
> Roland schrieb am 22.06.2012 06:44:
>> hi everybody,
>>
>> as far as i understand, the core git submodules are not the very current
>> ones unless you checkout master in every /typo3/sysext/nameOfTheSubmodule/?
>>
>> how (ofter) is this updated for the core git repository so that if you do a
>> git fetch -- all you really have the very current status of every part of
>> the core - also the submodules? could we make this an automated process?
>
> The submodule's pointers are updated shortly before a release of TYPO3
> Core after receiving confirmation from the upstream submodule team that
> their improvements are ready to package (i.e. md5sum updated in
> ext_emconf.php, etc).
>
> The packaging script (automated) will then update the pointer when
> building the TYPO3 package.
>
> Having it done automatically on every commit to the submodule would end
> up with tons of "rised submodule pointer" in our ChangeLog.
>
> You cannot work on a "detached head" anyway (which is the state of the
> submodules after a submodule update), so if you want to work on them you
> will have to checkout a branch anyway.
>
> The "submodule update" in the superproject will always try to reset to
> this detached head state:
>
> - if you have committed stuff already, you'll have to switch back to
> this branch afterwards again
> - if you have uncommitted stuff, "submodule update" won't checkout the
> detached head
>
> Unfortunately the submodule branch names are not easy (the version
> numbers differ from TYPO3 Core Version). Starting with 4.7 the branch
> names are in sync with the TYPO3 version, so "dbal_4-7" is the latest
> development for TYPO3_4-7 etc.
>
> Cheers,
> Ernesto