Keep component boilerplate in sync
Commodore components contain a number of boilerplate files. Some of those files are provided as skeletons to be modified by a component author. Other files should be kept equal for all components managed by Project Syn. Since we actively maintain and improve the component template, different components will contain different versions of the boilerplate. To ensure all components are updated to the latest template version, we use Cruft to keep components in sync with the template. The template repository for Project Syn components is hosted on GitHub at projectsyn/commodore-component-template.
Cruft is a tool which allows users to keep repositories based on Cookiecutter templates up to date.
We provide custom Commodore commands component new, component update and component sync which invoke Cruft to create or update component repositories.
Command component new uses the Cookiecutter template in projectsyn/commodore-component-template by default.
Since Cruft stores metadata about the template in the generated component repository, commands component update and component sync can read that metadata to identify the template from which the component should be updated.
The template is a completely standard Cookiecutter template.
The managed components are listed in components.yaml`.
Each entry refers to a Git repository hosted on GitHub and has the form <namespaces>/<name>.
NOTE: The namespace part can’t be omitted.
Applying changes
Changes in the template repository which are pushed to master will trigger the execution of commodore component sync.
A pull request will be created for each component listed in components.yaml if there’s changes that need to be applied to the component.
If there’s already an open pull request for a component, the existing pull request will be updated with the latest changes.
Changing template configuration
Use command commodore component update to change the template configuration.
See the Commodore command documentation for component update for supported command line flags.
Keep your component up to date
A component created with commodore component new will be ready to be managed with commodore component sync.
In order for this to happen, you have to add your component to components.yaml`.
Differences compared to the old setup based on modulesync
In contrast to modulesync, making changes to template files managed by Cruft, for example the Makefile, is generally not an issue.
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There may be changes which cause merge conflicts for the automated updates.
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