I cloned several extensions into .../extensions. Thereafter I tried to be a real smart ass by trying to switch all of them to the 1.23 branch. I did as instructed "git submodule update --init --recursive" followed by "git submodule foreach 'git checkout -b REL1_23 origin/REL1_23 || :" The I run update.php and get the following message: This version of the CharInsert extension requires MediaWiki 1.25+. That's awesome but does not help me since I want to do 1.23. Any hint appreciated.
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Even if I go to /extensions/CharInsert and do "git checkout -b REL1_23 origin/REL1_23" the update.php script tells me This version of the CharInsert extension requires MediaWiki 1.25+???
I just found out that I messed something with CharInsert while trying to to what is described in my first post. So if I do "git checkout -b REL1_23 origin/REL1_23" in every exension's folder I am cool. So how do I save time and do it for all of them in one go. This will be great.
The internet tells me to do something like "git submodule foreach --recursive git checkout -b REL1_23 origin/REL1_23" This does not work either. Still looking for a solution to not having to do it for say 50 extensions ... or is it that git is just a flawed system. There must be a trick I guess.
Probably this only works if you download the whole lot of extensions and not an isolated set of say 50. I guess git is funny ha ha Let's do the solos :)
It doesn't sound like you used submodules to initially install the extensions, did you?
No I did not, but did not realize this in the heat of the action. There should be a note about it.
I just used the exact commands you gave and successfully set up gerrit. In fact, I did
$ cd skins; git submodule foreach git review -s
and had success. Well, it did fail on the WPtouch skin, for some reason, but setting the gerrit remote in that directory manually allowed it to continue.
To set the gerrit remote in that directory:
$ cd WPTouch; git remote add gerrit URL