Best practice for plugin-repository

Best practice for plugin-repository

by René Hilgemann -
Number of replies: 2

Hello,

I am actually learning how to write plugins and I am trying to figure out what is the best practice relating git. 

What i have done so far (relating git) is:

1. Cloned https://github.com/moodle/moodle.git
2. Checkout of MOODLE_311_STABLE

I know that I need an own repository for the plugin, but I am unsure how to add changes etc. to my plugin repository without affecting the main repository. I know there is a lot of tutorials/manuals out there but it's so much that I am confused what is the right way for me (some sources are very old or depricated and so on...)

Maybe: 

3. Create a git submodule in a new subdirectory inside the main moodle directory??

Another option would be to just download the MOODLE_311_STABLE-branch as a zip-file but that sounds a bit odd/unprofessional. 

Some links with the actual way to go would be enough!

Thanks!  smile


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Re: Best practice for plugin-repository

by René Hilgemann -
Trying to answer my own question:

Use "git clone git://github.com/YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/moodle.git LOCALDIR" to have only read access to main repo (see https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Git_for_developers)

And for the plugin repo I can just have a second repository (local) inside the moodle repo and changes inside that won't affect the moodle repo anyway (I expected that this is not able to be honest...)
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Re: Best practice for plugin-repository

by Benjamin Ellis -
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Hi,

If you use submodules, all you need is a repo for your plugin only and you can separate the Moodle codebase.  Generally, I have a local clone of the Moodle repo and I clone single branches into my webserver development environment, then I create my plugin as a submodule with an upstream on Github.  That way I only am only using my plugin code and occasionally I will update the Moodle code without affecting my plugin development.




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