Re: [oll-user] Call for initial feedback

[Janek W. <lem...@gm...>]

2013/3/20 Urs Liska <ul...@op...>

> the website content is in a dedicated directory within the openLilyLib
> repository. (you can browse that in the "Code" area of openLilyLib, the
> directory is 'project-web'.
> AFAICS one can't use Git to manage the project web space (which is a pity
> if it's true).
> So the work-flow is: Make changes to the content (or the templates or the
> css ...), commit and push them to the openLilyLib repo and upload them to
> the web space with rsync.
> It's conceptionally a little bit awkward but works quite smoothly.
>

ah, ok.

> I like tinkering with git and i think i could learn how to merge
> repositories.  However, maybe git submodules would be a correct answer?  A
> submodule is just a repository inside another repository, so that we could
> have a big repo containing all projects, while all of them would remain to
> be separate repos.
>  I don't know how well that plays with SourceForge, however.
>
> Hm, for some reason I don't really know I'm 'scared' by Git submodules.
> The documentation on SourceForge doesn't mention submodules, but I don't
> know if there are special needs for that on the server.
> I think I will look in the official Git docs and get a better idea what
> submodules really are.
>

I have a bit of experience with them and they seem to be pretty
straightforward.  I was even able to debug a corrupted git repository which
contained a submodule, as you can see here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14797978/git-recovery-object-file-is-empty-how-to-recreate-trees
(that was really awesome!  I felt like a pro when i had finished ;-) )

best,
Janek
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