GRAV dockerized

Folders with only version numbers contain the bare CMS, others are named based on the skeleton packages. Each CMS comes with the admin and git-sync plugin.

If you, like me, want to easily modify the themes and other assets, without the need of direct access to the server, you can change the default configuration of the git-sync plugin, based on the comments described in trilbymedia/grav-plugin-git-sync#21. Here is the TL;DR; version:

• After starting the docker container on a server go the the admin plugin page and configure git-sync
• Connect via SSH and change to the directory where you mounted the /var/www/html volume to modify 3 files
• Make sure the user/.gitignore contains the following lines:

/*
!/pages
!/accounts
!/config
!/data
!/plugins
!/themes

• Make sure user/config/plugins/git-sync.yaml contains the following lines:

enabled: true
text_var: 'Custom Text added by the **Git Sync** plugin (disable plugin to remove)'
folders:
  - pages
  - accounts
  - config
  - data
  - plugins
  - themes
... REST STAYS THE SAME ...

• Make sure user/.git/info/sparse-checkout contains the following lines:

pages/
pages/*
accounts/
accounts/*
config/
config/*
data/
data/*
plugins/
plugins/*
themes/
themes/*

• Use git on your server or through the container in the user sub folder, to commit the new changes
• Congratulations, now you can modify plugins, data, themes and accounts from a different machine, and just sync via git back to your grav CMS instance

The above modifications converted into a bash script:

#Add gitignore
echo '' >> user/.gitignore
echo '!/accounts' >> user/.gitignore
echo '!/config' >> user/.gitignore
echo '!/data' >> user/.gitignore
echo '!/plugins' >> user/.gitignore
echo '!/themes' >> user/.gitignore

#Add config/git-sync file
sed -i '5i \ \ - accounts' user/config/plugins/git-sync.yaml
sed -i '5i \ \ - config' user/config/plugins/git-sync.yaml
sed -i '5i \ \ - data' user/config/plugins/git-sync.yaml
sed -i '5i \ \ - plugins' user/config/plugins/git-sync.yaml
sed -i '5i \ \ - themes' user/config/plugins/git-sync.yaml

#Add to git checkout
echo '' >> user/.git/info/sparse-checkout
echo 'accounts/' >> user/.git/info/sparse-checkout
echo 'accounts/*' >> user/.git/info/sparse-checkout
echo 'config/' >> user/.git/info/sparse-checkout
echo 'config/*' >> user/.git/info/sparse-checkout
echo 'data/' >> user/.git/info/sparse-checkout
echo 'data/*' >> user/.git/info/sparse-checkout
echo 'plugins/' >> user/.git/info/sparse-checkout
echo 'plugins/*' >> user/.git/info/sparse-checkout
echo 'themes/' >> user/.git/info/sparse-checkout
echo 'themes/*' >> user/.git/info/sparse-checkout