What is the recommended way to fork Nuxeo?

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nicolasraoul

The Getting the Nuxeo source code documentation says:

Contributing to Nuxeo does not require cloning Nuxeo source code

But when I want to play around and modify things and possibly later send various pull requests, is not it best if I have forked the repositories beforehand? I usually commit/push and create branches liberally, which I can't do if I have no write access to the repositories.

After cloning https://github.com/nuxeo/nuxeo , building requires me to clone dozens of other repositories. Is there a recommended way to choose what repositories to clone and what repositories to use directly from upstream? I noticed that some of these repositories have barely ever been forked by anyone, so there must be an alternative to cloning them all?

Julien_Carsique

Hi,

Choosing what to clone or not depends on the kind, the code location and the size of the contribution.
/> See Contributing to Nuxeo.

Fork then Pull-Request is the GitHub preferred way for sending a patch. It's indeed an easy process.

If you want to contribute changes on an addon for instance, you can clone and/or fork only that repository.

When you build a module, the required dependencies are downloaded from the online Maven repositories.
/> If you want to perform a full build starting from the source code root (https://github.com/nuxeo/nuxeo), then yes: you will need to locally retrieve the whole source code. You can easily do it with the helper clone.py script.
/> Clone and fork is not the same thing: you can clone the whole source code (all repositories) and fork only the repository(ies) you want to contribute to.