Hello,
Would it be possible to stay in the main repository even when working with submodules? In the use-cases we encountered the parent repository would have references to its sub-modules, but sub-modules would not have any reference to the parent or other sub-modules. And given that Git repositories can live as independent entities, it would not seem very intuitive to create references to an other Git repository that may or may not be available, depending on whether the repository was referenced as a sub-module.
We're trying to justify a change to the current behavior regarding Git sub-modules in Web Author. Please describe your use-case in more detail. Best, Gabriel Gabriel Titerlea https://www.oxygenxml.com On 02-Dec-19 16:47, Jirka Kosek wrote:
On 28.11.2019 14:49, oXygen XML Editor Support (Gabriel Titerlea) wrote:
In my case only test submodule works others are shown as empty. Web Author remembers the list of sub-modules for 8 hours, it doesn't check for new sub-modules on each request. Did you push these sub-modules recently? Does the issue persist after you restart Web Author? Hi,
yep that did the trick -- another day there was no problem accessing content of submodules. Thank you very much.
I have encountered another issue with submodules. Let's consider the following layout of repositories.
project/test1 - git repository with some assets and files project/test2 - another git repository with some assets and files
project/main - git repository that adds test1 and test2 as a top level submodules in folders test1 and test2
Now I create some XML file inside project/main repository -- either at the top level or inside some folder (that is real folder inside project/main not folder attached to submodule). Now I'm using actions from toolbar for inserting images (for example for DocBook) -- file picker dialog allows me to choose any files including files in submodules. When I choose image from submodule it's correctly referenced, e.g.:
<imagedata fileref="test1/images/logo.png"/>
However if I create XML file in folder attached to submodule Web Author automatically switches to submodule repository and it's no longer possible to reference images from the main repository or from other submodules. Respectively it's possible if I change repository manually but URL of referenced image is unusable as it is no longer relative reference, e.g.:
<imagedata fileref="gitgle://https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fproject%2Fmain/master/test1/images/logo.png"/>
This is probably caused by the fact that when opening/creating file in folder attached to submodule Web Author switches to submodule repository automatically. So in my example setup when I'm trying to work with file
test1/example.xml in project/main repository
Web Author automatically uses
example.xml in project/test1 repository
Would it be possible to stay in the main repository even when working with submodules?
Many thanks in advance,
Jirka