[support] Git and Multisite

[Earnie Boyd]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Ms. Nancy Wichmann
<nan_wich at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I'm going to guess that I know the answer already.
>
> I have a friend who wants to collaborate on a pro-bono site I am developing.
> So I thought of creating a repository on GitHub to make it easier. But I do
> all my development in a true multisite (single code base). So, for example,
> sites/all/modules contains every module that any of my sites uses. This is
> far more than this particular site uses.
>

I learned some time ago that it is easier for me to use
sites/example.com/modules instead of sites/all/modules.  I simply
cannot bring all sites down for maintenance when a module is upgraded,
I upgrade them one at a time.

> If I build a repository, is it not going to contain all those modules
> (themes, images, etc) even though they are not needed for this site? Do I
> need to split it off to a single site with only the modules (etc.) that are
> needed for that one site?
>

Yes, this is what I would do if I were you.

> I think building and maintaining a .gitignore file would be far more
> annoying than splitting the site.
>

Ditto.

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