Re: [mantisbt-dev] Issue on committing changes to a fork (mantisbt-plugins)

[Manilal K M <ma...@ej...>]

Damien,

Thanks for the detailed explanation. I thought of having a symbolic link, but then I was not very sure whether it will work with Mantis. I will get back to you if I have any more questions.

regards
Manilal

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Damien Regad" <dr...@ma...>
> To: "mantis-dev" <Man...@li...>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 4:29:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [mantisbt-dev] Issue on committing changes to a fork	(mantisbt-plugins)

> Hi Manilal,
> 
> On 2014-12-29 16:04, Manilal K M wrote:
>> I cloned the repository and the source files got downloaded to
> > timetracking folder within mantisbt/plugins.
>> Then I moved everything (including .git) folder to the TimeTracking
> > folder within the timetracking folder.
> 
> What you did is is basically moving the contents of the TimeTracking
> directory to the repository's root and removing the directory. In other
> words, you changed the repo's structure
> 
> Before:
> ./timetracking/.git
> ./timetracking/README
> ./timetracking/TimeTracking/
> ./timetracking/TimeTracking/core
> ./timetracking/TimeTracking/pages
> ./timetracking/TimeTracking/lang
> 
> After:
> ./timetracking/.git
> ./timetracking/README
> ./timetracking/core
> ./timetracking/pages
> ./timetracking/lang
> 
>> I have worked with EmailReporting plugin earlier, but didn't have such issues.
> 
> The EmailReporting plugin has all its files at the repository's root,
> whereas the timetracking stores it in the TimeTracking subdir.
> 
>> Could someone help me to figure out this?
> 
> Hope the above explanation was enough...
> 
> I suggest you checkout the repository outside of Mantis' plugin
> directory, and create a symbolic link to TimeTracking subdir, e.g.
> 
> $ cd /path/to/mantis/plugins
> $ ln -s /path/to/timetracking/TimeTracking
> 
>> Can I ignore the above messages submit the pull request?
> 
> No you cant ;-)
> 
> D
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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