webiny / github-subtree-tool
A tool to automatically update readonly github repos, based on a provided master repo.
Requires
- php: >=5.5.9
- knplabs/github-api: ~1.4
- wp-cli/php-cli-tools: 0.10.*
This package is not auto-updated.
Last update: 2024-10-26 17:29:40 UTC
README
This tool is used to semi-automate the management of read-only git repositories, that depend on the provided parent repository.
Installation
composer --global require webiny/github-subtree-tool
Running the tool
Just run the following command from the terminal, and follow the procedure:
$ cd vendor/webiny/github-subtree-tool/
$ php cli.php
Requirements
Configuration
GIT_ACC
- name of the github account that holds the repos
- example: Webiny (refers to https://github.com/Webiny)
GIT_REPO
- name of your
master
repo - example: Framework (refers to https://github.com/Webiny/Framework)
GIT_USER
- your github username
- should have write access to GIT_REPO
GIT_PASS
- github password for GIT_ACC
GIT_SUBTREE
- path where the subtree components are located, inside the
master
repo - example: src/Webiny/Components
Structure and repo names
On of the most important requirements is that the component repo names match the ones inside the GIT_SUBTREE path on the parent repo.
For example: https://github.com/Webiny/Framework/tree/master/src/Webiny/Component/**Annotations** matches: https://github.com/Webiny/**Annotations**
The back story behind the tool
Let's take our Webiny Framework for example.
The Framework repo consists of several components like Storage
, Entity
, Mailer
and others.
These components reside under the Framework
repo inside src/Webiny/Component
.
But these components also have their own github repositories:
The reason for this is that this is a modular framework, meaning you can use any of the components without actually using the whole framework. And today, the best way to install a PHP component is over composer, meaning you need to have a separate repo for each of the components.
We always do our development inside the Framework
repo, meaning over time we need to sync the changes to the component repos, including creating branches, releases and updating the composer.json file.
We have created this tool to automate that work.
How it works
It first checks out the defined branch from your parent repository, in our case that's the Framework
repo.
Then it checks which components are contained inside that repo, under the define path, in our case that’s the src/Webiny/Components
.
After that, it checks out the component branch and copies over the changes from the parent repo.
In the end, it creates the requested branch or tag, on both the component repos and the parent repo. Optionally, it can also update the composer.json files
Safety
This tool communicates with your github repo, so make sure you understand what you are doing.
Just to be safe, the tool will at the very end of the process ask for your confirmation to confirm that you want to push all the changes. Until that confirmation, no changes are done on the repo.
Bugs and improvements
Just report them under issues, or even better, send a pull request :)