[dokuwiki] Re: Blogged about maintaining a dokuwiki template

  • From: Anika Henke <anika@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 11:16:03 +0100

Hi,

> If someone's interested in the workflow, you can read about it in my 
> recent blog post: 
> http://dennis.dieploegers.de/doku.php/my2cents/maintaining_dokuwiki_templates

Thanks, it's interesting to see how other developers are using the
starter template.

There are two things I don't understand:

1. Why do you download the zip file for the starter template and extract
it into your new template folder? The starter template is already in a
repository, so you would lose all of its history. I would simply clone
it in the first place. The good thing about all the previous commits is
not just who did what, but also *why* certain things were done. If you
don't know why a certain line is there, you can track it back to all the
commits that line was part of (and its messages with probably some
further explanation).

2. I don't get the idea of a vendor branch at all. Isn't that the same
as pulling from the original repository? I would simply do `git pull
upstream master` (if "upstream" was the original repo). Or probably
better `git pull upstream stable` (stable is a tag on the latest
release, so the same as the download file).

Cheers,
Anika
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