Joomla Component in Git

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I am running a full Joomla installation on my XAMPP environment which is using GIT. But GIT is now full tracking my Joomla installation including the component. I would like to show the component only in Github. I found this one but this is even more work Joomla Custom Compoment Dev Env : Hot Deployment

In short:

It has to track only a few folders in this case as the Joomla installation doesn't need to be tracked by GIT. This way I can release a component very quickly by changing a few things and hit the download button in GIT instead of using Phing to make an installable zip file for Joomla.

Is this possible or do I need to track the complete Joomla installation.

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gitjoomla
Check out git submodules. - Jørgen R
Thanks for your answer, couldyou point me a bit as I have added the submodule now I think. But the newly created repo is not being filled. - Robert Dam

2 Answers

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You have two options:

  1. You can create a full ignore list, excluding all elements in your repository that don't belong to your component. GitHub should offer you this option while creating a new repository.
    It's a bit ugly to see, but it's effective.

  2. Symlink you files from your repository to your Joomla site. This is much more elegant, but it's a little more complicated.
    For example you have this repo structure:

    extension
    ... backend
    ... frontend

You will have to symlink the entire folder backend to joomla_path/administrator/com_your_component and the frontend one to joomla_path/com_your_component

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I have created something similar to your requirement. https://github.com/gunjanpatel/joomla-webdev-sample-repo may be this will help you or someone else and save time.