Remove .git folder from modules and themes development branches

[ndf]

When requiring a development branch of a Drupal module or theme, the repository will be downloaded as git repository.

Example
composer require drupal/paragraphs:1.x-dev
composer install
Result
web/modules/contrib/paragraphs/.git/...
web/modules/contrib/paragraphs/paragraphs.info.yml

Can we add a post-install-cmd and post-update-cmd event that removes these .git folders?

[PatrickBauer]

Actually you shouldn't commit these contrib modules (thats why they are inside the .gitignore). If you really need them, you could implement a post-update-command for your project, but I don't think it should be the default.

[fafnirical]

Unfortunately, some hosting providers (like Acquia) seem to require git deployments. Because of the git metadata, those packages can't be added for the deployment, even with git add --force.

For our Composer-managed, Acquia-hosted projects, we're removing the folders only on our CI server.

[ndf]

@PatrickBauer Ah your right. I noticed this in a project where we deviated from the default behaviour and actually committed all composer dependencies.

That case looks like @fafnirical with Acquia, because a Composer deployment isn't supported.
We remove the .git directories for submodules manually before committing.

So I am with @PatrickBauer that this feature-request should not be default.
Additionally; if we do create this feature, I guess it should be extended to all composer dependencies, not limited the drupal modules/themes.

How do you think about this?

[cmcintosh]

Quick question what workflow is 'ideal' in regards custom modules / themes. most shops / projects in the past just keep everything in one huge repo. With divesting of contrib libraries / projects, is it better to keep those custom projects in smaller repos with a central one that references them via composer or ?

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On 12/1/16 4:43 PM, Niels de Feyter wrote: @PatrickBauer <https://github.com/PatrickBauer> Ah your right. I noticed this in a project where we deviated from the default behaviour and actually committed all composer dependencies. That case looks like @fafnirical <https://github.com/fafnirical> with Acquia, because a Composer deployment isn't supported. We remove the .git directories for submodules manually before committing. So I am with @PatrickBauer <https://github.com/PatrickBauer> that this feature-request should not be default. Additionally; if we do create this feature, I guess it should be extended to all composer dependencies, not limited the drupal modules/themes. How do you think about this? — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#223 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACA0jSPElbfgBwzb0OWCQixCReIJzd6Wks5rDoiYgaJpZM4LAMOE>.

[ndf]

@cmcintosh Hard to say if there is an 'ideal' workflow. But I guess it is safe to say that a lot of projects are moving from 'one big file dump' (ftp) to 'big file dump in version control' (git) to 'only saving meta-data about dependencies'.

In Drupal-land the latter was previously managed with 'drush make', and that is going towards 'composer'.
In JS-land this is done with NPM and in Ruby-land with Bundler.

A big plus for this workflow is that the dependency-management tool (composer, npm, bundler) takes care of updating your dependencies and patches. It makes maintenance easier when a project evolves.

In reality, as @fafnirical said, not all hosting providers support all workflows. So that is something to consider too.

[tanc]

We're currently wedded to a monolithic repo method so to handle development modules with git directories we just remove them with an additional function in scripts/composer/ScriptHandler.php

  public static function removeGitDirectories() {
    $root = static::getDrupalRoot(getcwd());
    exec('find ' . $root . ' -name \'.git\' | xargs rm -rf');
  }

This gets called in our composer.json in post-install-cmd and post-update-cmd

"post-install-cmd": [
    "DrupalProject\\composer\\ScriptHandler::createRequiredFiles",
    "DrupalProject\\composer\\ScriptHandler::removeGitDirectories"
],
"post-update-cmd": [
    "DrupalProject\\composer\\ScriptHandler::createRequiredFiles",
    "DrupalProject\\composer\\ScriptHandler::removeGitDirectories"
]

It's a bit brutal but it works. One side effect is that when you composer update a development module it will complain but you can just hit return to force update it.

[webflo]

The snippet looks good, thanks for sharing. 👍

[Natshah]

Thank you :) 👍 using ....

[weitzman]

One side effect is that when you composer update a development module it will complain but you can just hit return to force update it.

Another way to bypass that warning is to add --no-interaction option.

[mqanneh]

👍

[mohammadzo]

You do not need to create a function and call it to remove the .git folder.
simply add the following

  "scripts": {
            "post-install-cmd": [
                "@composer drupal-scaffold",
                "find docroot vendor -name '.git' | xargs rm -rf",
                "find docroot vendor -name '.github' | xargs rm -rf"
            ],
            "post-update-cmd": [
                "@composer drupal-scaffold",
                "find docroot vendor -name '.git' | xargs rm -rf",
                "find docroot vendor -name '.github' | xargs rm -rf"
            ],