= Gitification of Indymedia linksunten =

== Introduction ==

Until May 2012,[https://linksunten.indymedia.org/ Indymedia linksunten] used the Good Old Fashioned Way™ to keep track of upstream changes to it's [http://drupal.org/ Drupal] (in fact: [http://pressflow.org/ Pressflow]) core and modules: [http://drupal.org/project/drush drush] dl mymodule. At least in theory. In reality, the core has been patched twice, many modules even more than that and some self-written modules do not even exist in a public drupal repository. linksunten has some 80 modules installed and keeping track of updates is wearisome for the non-patched modules, troublesome for the patched modules and painful for the self-written ones. We learned that a version control system could ease the error-prone update procedure and as drupal.org has switched to [/wiki/git git] we decided to do the same. Since git follows the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_more_than_one_way_to_do_it TMTOWTDI] paradigm we could avoid using [http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Tools-Submodules git-submodule] and settled for [https://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree git-subtree] instead which has recently been [https://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree/commit/8cd698957f57f62ec3d313403bebced2fdf751e5 merged] into git core.