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Old 08-14-2011
Error Can't Commit Directory... is this guy pulling my leg?
Hello,

I hired a coder a couple weeks ago to develop 3 small modules for a popular CMS. I created Github repos for each module so as to manage the code and allow others to download it at will.

The CMS in question is structured in such a way that each module is housed in its own directory, like this:

/mods
/mods/mod1
/mods/mod2
/mods/mod3

The coder is using Linux Shell to commit code to Github. When he performed his first commit, he uploaded the content of the mod into each repo. In other words, on the mod1 repo, rather than upload mod1/mode1-files, he just uploaded the /mod1-files.

I asked him if he could change it up so as to include the mod directory, but he said that this would make things complicated since it would “require the use of an intermediary copy”.

The problem here is that when Joe Public downloads the repo, he has to create the mod directory manually and I need to supply the exact mod directory name (in the readme.txt file I guess). It would be easier if the module directory was in the zip.

This doesn’t make sense to me. Why wouldn’t he just be able to commit at the module directory level? Is there something with Linux Shell that would prevent him from doing this? Would I be out of line to insist on including the directory?


Thanks,
Fred.
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Old 08-14-2011
I'm not sure what exactly do you mean, As I have no pervious experince with svn source control SW or Github.
But as little bit that I grasped from your post , In my humble opinin your developer face a problem with some kind of SVN permission issue or even Linux direcotry permission so he can't write to this dir.
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Old 08-14-2011
Unless I misunderstand you, there is no problem with committing directory trees into source control systems. If you want a structure of /mod1/files then you should just create it on your local file system, add it to the repository that you have checked out and commit it.
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