On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Yaron Koren <[email protected]> wrote:
> I upgraded a wiki (via Git) to the latest version, which is 1.25alpha, and > discovered that core MediaWiki no longer includes any skins. To get skins > via Git, the error message at the top of the wiki helpfully recommended > "Cloning one of the mediawiki/skins/* repositories via git [sic] into the > skins/ directory of your MediaWiki installation." What was missing, > however, was an actual Git command to call. I looked in mediawiki.org and > couldn't find anything either. I tried some obvious commands, like: > > git clone http://git.wikimedia.org/tree/mediawiki%2Fskins/Vector.git > > ...but those didn't work. Thankfully, someone on IRC suggested the > following: > Of course they wouldn't, that's just a web url. I don't ever recommend cloning from git.wm.o since it's so buggy and unreliable, but if you must the URL you're wanting is: https://git.wikimedia.org/git/mediawiki/skins/Vector.git > > git clone https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-skins-Vector > > ...which did work. But that doesn't seem like the official location; and in > any case, this really should be documented somewhere. Can anyone help with > this? > Github is just a mirror. The official location is still Gerrit. You want: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/skins/Vector.git -or- ssh://gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/mediawiki/skins/Vector.git -Chad _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
