[jboss-as7-dev] Breakup quickstarts into separate repos?

[Scott Stark]

To answer Paul's question and respond to Pete here, the only reason is to have a simple set of steps to take a new openshift application repo and update it to one of the as7 quickstarts. One additional step is needed over what Pete shows as you need to remove the existing source since the original base app has classes/descriptors that no longer apply.

Maybe the subtree merge logic could be added to the rhc openshift tools to simplify this. I'll play around with some things.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Muir" <pmuir at redhat.com>
To: "Sande Gilda" <sgilda at redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul Gier" <pgier at redhat.com>, "Shelly McGowan" <smcgowan at redhat.com>, "Burr Sutter" <bsutter at redhat.com>, "Scott Stark" <sstark at redhat.com>, "jboss-as7-dev at lists.jboss.org Development" <jboss-as7-dev at lists.jboss.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 3:49:57 AM
Subject: Re: Breakup quickstarts into separate repos?

Adding Scott and jboss-as7-deb at lists.jboss.org.

No, I'm not on the jboss as internal list, not sure why we need to discuss it there?

This has come up a couple of times recently. The main issue I see is that this will result in around 80-100 git repositories, and a lot of scripting to create coordinated releases. It sounds like an admin and contribution nightmare to me.

I've thought about the problem Scott raises, and the best solution I've come up with so far is copy and paste:

git clone git://github.com/jbossas/quickstart.git ../quickstaets
cp -r ../quickstart/kitchensink/* .
git add src pom.xml
git push

which is only one more command.

We can also use a subtree merge (which is what you need to look at Scott, not submodules), but I feel this is much more complex to advise to users, as it involves explaining what a subtree merge is, over everyone knowing what a copy and paste is.

On 14 Mar 2012, at 01:00, Sande Gilda wrote:

> Did you see this? It sounds like it would be a problem to administer and release. What do you think?
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:	Breakup quickstarts into separate repos?
> Date:	Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:11:25 -0400 (EDT)
> From:	Scott Stark <sstark at redhat.com>
> To:	jboss-as at redhat.com
> 
> Would it make sense to break each quickstart into it's own repository and then integrate them back into the quickstart repository using the git submodule? What I would like to be able to do is something like the following in an openshift app repo to switch over to the quickstart:
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> git remote add upstream -m master git://github.com/jbossas/kitchensink.git
> git pull -s recursive -X theirs upstream master
> git push
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> There is no notion of checking out a subdirectory of a git repo. One problem I see with using submodules is that when I checkout the root project containing the submodules, the submodules content is not checked out. There is a comment in one submodule tutorial that claims later versions of git due checkout the submodule content, but with my git version 1.7.9.1 I don't see that happening.
> 
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