Keep the standalone's git history when its files are absorbed - #88
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 12 included reviews per hour; 9 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request documents a scratch-worktree procedure for importing standalone history into a sub-plugin directory. It adds ChangesInstallation documentation
Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This documentation-only PR changes the prescribed repository-absorption workflow, but the current instructions can still cause plugin loading failures, unresolved merge conflicts, incomplete imports, or misleading history expectations. The PR is not merge-ready until these instructions are corrected or explicitly accepted by the owner. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@docs/installing.md`:
- Around line 45-46: Update the installation commands to use the registered
bundle directory sub-plugins/recurring instead of sub-plugins/give-recurring,
ensuring the imported give-recurring.php is placed where Absorber::boot()
expects it.
- Around line 81-84: Update the merge instructions in the documented workflow to
explain that -X ours does not resolve independently added paths. Add explicit
steps for each remaining add/add conflict: inspect the path, select the current
branch version with git checkout --ours -- PATH, then stage it with git add --
PATH before completing the merge.
- Around line 81-84: Update the missing-file audit instructions to use a
first-parent diff scoped to sub-plugins/give-recurring, replacing the git show
--stat HEAD guidance with git diff --name-status HEAD^1 HEAD so files introduced
by old-repo-import are included.
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In `@docs/configuration.md`:
- Around line 177-178: Update the documentation to state that the
pre-copied-file merge procedure preserves host-side file content, not standalone
file blame or lineage. Clarify that standalone lineage requires resolving
conflicts from the standalone side and reapplying host-only edits in a later
commit.
- Around line 179-180: Update the documentation guidance around comparing merge
results so it uses the first-parent comparison commands, git diff --stat HEAD^1
HEAD or git diff --name-status HEAD^1 HEAD, instead of git show --stat HEAD,
ensuring standalone-only files are included.
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171-173: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winCorrect the tag-collision explanation.
A plain fetch does not overwrite an existing local tag with the same name. It skips the conflicting tag and can still succeed, leaving the local
1.0.0unchanged. Keep--no-tagsas the recommended option.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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180-181: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winDescribe rebase as history rewriting, not history loss.
git rebasereapplies the imported changes onto a new base and creates new commit IDs. It preserves the changes but replaces the imported commit chain and rewrites its ancestry. A merge commit preserves the original commit IDs and records the unrelated-history ancestry.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@docs/configuration.md`:
- Around line 141-142: Qualify the no-conflict statement next to the git merge
command by stating that it applies only when no tracked paths under
sub-plugins/give-recurring overlap with the imported tree; note that previously
copied files can produce add/add conflicts.
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In `@docs/configuration.md`:
- Around line 171-173: Update the --no-tags documentation to state that plain
fetch skips conflicting existing local tags without overwriting them, may still
succeed, and leaves the local 1.0.0 unchanged; retain --no-tags as the
recommended option.
- Around line 180-181: Update the Git workflow documentation to describe rebase
as rewriting commit history and ancestry while preserving the changes, rather
than discarding history; retain the distinction that a merge commit preserves
the original commit IDs and records the unrelated-history ancestry.
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What: documents how to bring an absorbed plugin's git history into the host repository, in
docs/configuration.mdbetween Activation and what changes for the bundled plugin — no source, hook or entry point changes.Usage:
Why this way:
The branch work happens in a scratch worktree because checking the standalone's tree out over the host's destroys ignored files. git does not protect them the way it protects untracked files: one that collides is overwritten in place, and switching back removes any directory left holding nothing but ignored files. Measured on a host carrying a
.gitignored build artifact and a database dump — checking out the import branch silently replaced the artifact, and switching back deleted the wholeassets/directory, taking a second, non-colliding artifact with it. A worktree leaves the host checkout untouched and only ever merged into; the same run through a worktree lost nothing.Nesting the whole tree before the merge is what makes it conflict-free, and it has to be the whole tree. The standalone's
README.md,LICENSEand.gitignorelive at its top level, so anything left there merges into the host's root — conflicting where the names match, and silently adding where they do not. Driving the move offgit ls-treerather than a hand-written list of paths is the difference between "no conflicts" and "no conflicts in the files someone remembered".The move stages through a temporary directory because the destination is otherwise inside the tree being moved. That step runs against the standalone's own checkout, so a destination like
includes/notificationslands under anincludes/the standalone tracks itself, and git refuses to move a directory into itself. The failure mode is the reason this is worth a paragraph: exactly one entry fails while every other one succeeds, so the fatal scrolls past in a screen of moves that worked and the import looks finished. Renaming one staged directory into place instead does not care where the destination sits.The procedure was run against throwaway repositories rather than reasoned about. The host was built to collide deliberately — same root filenames, same
1.0.0tag, a directory at the destination's parent path tracked by both sides, and ignored build output in a directory the standalone also tracks — and the merge came out clean, withgit blameattributing each line to its original standalone commit and author and printing the pre-move path.--no-tagsis in the snippet because without it the fetch imported the standalone's1.1.0as though it were a host release, while the colliding1.0.0silently did not import at all.The move commit must move and nothing else, which is the one rule that fails quietly. Nesting and rewriting a file in the same commit drops it below git's rename-similarity threshold: measured
git log --followdepth of 2 for a move-only commit against 1 when a file was rewritten alongside the move, with blame reaching none of the standalone's history in the second case. Nothing about the result looks wrong until someone goes looking for a reason a line exists.A submodule is the obvious alternative and does not fit. A bundled copy usually needs small host-only edits that have no business in the standalone's repository, which is normally archived soon afterwards — so the doc names that trade-off instead of leaving the reader to rediscover it.