[development] Git Drupal workflow (was Re: Git.. wat?)

[ekes]

On 30/04/10 03:12, Andrew Berry wrote:
> On a related topic, anyone using git in a way like how subversion does vendor branches? Currently I do a cvs export => svn with svn_load_dirs.pl, and I'd be really interested on any resources on how to best do this with core and contrib code.

Where I can get a good git checkout [1] of the module I'm using
submodules [2] for them all.
This allows the superproject just to have info about where (what
version) in the module it is.
If I need to edit, patch, etc. the module for what ever reason I'm
cloning it on a git repo I can write to and just moving the submodule to
point there. Then creating actual branches (rather than a headless
checkout - see [2] for explanations of the wierd terminology) that I can
then commit to my repo for just that module.
I'm actually even doing this for core, as a submodule of my
superproject. It makes it easy to keep a single copy with patches
(simpletest, the extra cron for drupal_queue etc.) and then switch them
on the project. I'm guessing I could even add another tracking branch on
pressflow - but I've not gone there yet.

Cheers, ekes

[1] I've stumbled for several modules as the tags don't seem to line up
for CVS -> git conversions, so this isn't perfect till everything is
moved to git
http://github.com/sdboyer/drupal-git-scripts/issues/closed#issue/3
[2] http://book.git-scm.com/5_submodules.html

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