[IPython-dev] git submodules

[MinRK]

Ah - git subtrees actually add all of the files in the other repo in every
sync commit - so this is really just doing exactly what we had before, just
adding another repo to the mix.  There isn't much benefit to subtrees in
our case, then.


On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 11:28 AM, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:

> No, we didn't.  They look promising, but I can't find any sufficiently
> helpful documentation about what they actually do.  I will have a look at
> whether they might be preferable - it certainly seems so.
>
>
> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Darren Dale <dsdale24 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Min,
>>
>> Did you also consider using git subtrees?
>>
>> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 1:25 AM, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > As of this week, IPython now gets its third-party javascript
>> dependencies
>> > from a git submodule.
>> > This adds an extra wrinkle to using IPython from git, but the basics all
>> > work:
>> >
>> >     git clone git://github.com/ipython/ipython.git
>> >     cd ipython && python setup.py install
>> >     # or
>> >     cd ipython && python setup.py develop
>> >
>> > # or one step with pip:
>> >
>> >     pip install -e git://github.com/ipython/ipython.git#egg=ipython
>> >
>> > But where you might get tripped up is updating an existing repo via `git
>> > pull`, which does not update the submodule (the plan is for this to be
>> > needed very rarely, but it will come up, especially now that the
>> submodule
>> > is new).  The gist is that if you get 404s on files in
>> `static/components`
>> > while running the notebook, the first thing to try is:
>> >
>> >     python setup.py submodule
>> >
>> > which just does
>> >
>> >     git submodule init
>> >     git submodule update --recursive
>> >
>> > to make sure that the components submodule is up to date.
>> >
>> > We will try to get this as automatic as we can, so that we trip up /
>> confuse
>> > / annoy as few people as possible, but we are figuring things out as we
>> go
>> > right now.
>> >
>> > -MinRK
>> >
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