I’m developing WP as a heavily bespoke CMS. One of the five plugins required is already 2500 lines of code and isn’t quite finished. I work between two machines – my laptop and my home PC. Generally, my working method involves FileZilla and Notepad++. I log on to whichever machine I need to use; download … Read more
I’m converting everything over to Git for my own personal use and I found some old versions of a file already in the repository. How do I commit it to the history in the correct order according the file’s “date modified” so I have an accurate history of the file? I was told something like … Read more
In GitHub, what is the conceptual difference between a project (that can be created inside a repository) and a repository? I’ve seen several similar questions (here, here and here) in SO, but none of them explains what is a GitHub project, what is a GitHub repository and when to use each one of them. I … Read more
Preface: I’m attempting to use the repository pattern in an MVC architecture with relational databases. I’ve recently started learning TDD in PHP, and I’m realizing that my database is coupled much too closely with the rest of my application. I’ve read about repositories and using an IoC container to “inject” it into my controllers. Very … Read more
Is it possible to generate a Dockerfile from an image? I want to know for two reasons: I can download images from the repository but would like to see the recipe that generated them. I like the idea of saving snapshots, but once I am done it would be nice to have a structured format … Read more
I wanted to rename one of my repositories on GitHub, but I got scared when a big red warning said: We will not set up any redirects from the old location You will need to update your local repositories to point to the new location Renaming may take a few minutes to complete Does anyone … Read more
How can I submit pull request to other’s plugin, which is hosted at wordpress.org? 2 Answers 2 No, the wordpres.org SVN repositories are not for development and there are no plans to change this. So you either have to ask on support forum, or if the plugin is on an open GIT repository search for … Read more
I have several virtual hosts setup, three of them pull files via SVN when needed(though only the trunk folder actually needs this), using SVN for other versions make for easy patch creation, or easy file replacement if i hack a core file. My question is whether i can checkin a plugin from directly inside the … Read more
The question is “How to Allow Two Developers Access to a Plugin on the WordPress.org Plugin Repository?” This question was asked on the wp-hackers list and @EAMann answered it nicely and it’s a great question to have here so I’m posting it for Eric to answer here. 1 1 There are two (2) steps. Add … Read more
I have setup a local git on my machine. When I initialized git, I added pre-compiled libs and binaries. However, now during my development I don’t want to check in those files intermittently. I dont want to remove these files from repo. Is there any way to not keep a track of these files till … Read more
