So, to make sure I understand...
If I have an extension of mine in a submodule of a project, I can
develop within that extension:
* make changes in that copy of the extension (testing its behavior
as part of the project)
* commit those changes to the submodule's repo
* manage branching (gitk, etc) from within that submodule
If so, that helps me a lot. Everything I'd read made it sound like
submodules don't behave like a working git repo which is why I thought
you couldn't push changes back to the original -- that submodules only
permitted data transfer one-way (from source to your local copy).
-Chris
Sean Cribbs wrote:
Like svn:externals, you can maintain a submodule in a project, commit
to it and push it while maintaining the parent project. However,
whenever you've changed something in the submodule, it's necessary to
go back up to the parent project, commit the submodule directory, and
possibly do `git submodule init` and `git submodule update` (I don't
know if that's strictly necessary, but I like to do it to be
certain). That will make sure that the next time your parent project
is checked out, it will get the latest submodule version.
Sean
Chris Parrish wrote:
Trying to get up to speed with a Git workflow and I have some
questions about working with extensions.
If I have a radiant project A that uses someone else's extensions B,
C, and D. I understand that I can create a repo for radiant project
A set up all the extensions as submodules (if they're all in git repos).
If, on the other hand, I'm developing extension B, I could set up a
dummy project A (no repo), and set up B, C, and D as independent,
parallel repos. No submodules. With B being the one I'm working on,
managing, branching, etc. of course.
But what if I'm developing extension B along with project A? If you
edit code within a submodule B, there's no way to send those changes
back to the original B repo (or use branching, or other git tools) on
B is there? Git isn't really tracking your changes on B is it?
Is there some way to handle this development situation or am I just
going about this wrong?
Is piston or braid an option here and if so, is anyone using it
successfully?
Thanks,
-Chris Parrish
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