[Labs-l] Sharing code in GitHub

Fri May 16 22:50:30 UTC 2014

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Tim Landscheidt
<tim at tim-landscheidt.de> wrote:
> (anonymous) wrote:
>
>> I pushed three repos just now[1][2][3], and I'm not sure about the correct
>> way to deal with others. One of them contains some counter vandalism
>> functionality, and I fear that publishing them makes vandals easier to
>> bypass it somehow. Another one is basically a MediaWiki core repo, with a
>> few patches on top of master to support [1]; I'm afraid pushing it will
>> upload a full MediaWiki history.
>
>> [1] https://github.com/liangent/mediawiki-extensions-Labs
>> [2] https://github.com/liangent/mediawiki-maintenance
>> [3] https://github.com/liangent/updatedyk
>
>> [...]
>
> I don't know if GitHub shares commits over all repositories
> to minimize uploads, but if you would clone such a MediaWiki
> "add-on", you could optimize the download by using the
> "--reference" option à la:
>
> | git clone --reference /local/mediawiki remote:/mediawiki-add-on /local/mediawiki-add-on
>
> This will only download the commits from the remote reposi-
> tory that aren't part of the local repository (for native
> Git protocols; http repositories usually won't be fine-
> grained enough).
>
> This isn't that useful when you just need to initialize a
> new working directory every three months, but can save quite
> some time for example when you regularly run a test suite
> and/or you have submodules with remote URLs (then "git
> submodule update --reference" & Co.).

I haven't reviewed the repos in question but if they're closely
related to existing core branches then why not just store in the core
repo? (or alternatively on github in a fork of core)

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/personal_sandbox

-Jeremy