On 3.12.2019 12:40, oXygen XML Editor Support (Gabriel Titerlea) wrote:
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.
It's project where requirements changed over the time ;-) Originally separate textbooks have been edited -- each textbook in a separate git repository. Each textbook has been standalone. For each textbook different group of users has access rights. Now requirements changed and some books need to reuse content (chapters/section, images, ...) from other books. Merging all individual repositories into one large repository (for example using git subtree feature) where there will be separate folder for each book is not viable as this way we would loose ability to give different access rights for different textbooks. Git can set access rights only on whole repository not on individual folders inside it. So using submodules we can keep textbooks that don't require inclusion of assets from other textbooks as they were in a separate repositories. Then textbooks that need to reuse content can be edited from "grandrepo" that would include all textbooks as submodules. Well, yes perhaps this is far beyond what git has been designed for. Git was fine for original requirements. Knowing current requirements at the start of project would mean that expensive CCMS should be used instead of git. :-( Thanks and have a nice day, Jirka -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz http://xmlguru.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------ Professional XML and Web consulting and training services DocBook/DITA customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing ------------------------------------------------------------------ Bringing you XML Prague conference http://xmlprague.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------