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Asked: 2026-05-21T07:00:47+00:00

I’m currently moving from symfony 1.4 using SVN to Symfony2 using Git. I am

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I’m currently moving from symfony 1.4 using SVN to Symfony2 using Git. I am new to Git and have read a lot of documentation since a week but, unfortunately, I am unable to find a way to work as I worked before with SVN. Indeed, I understood that the approach is different between these two SCM.

Let explain how I worked with sf1.4 and SVN. My repository structure was like this :

root    /* Main repository */
  branches
  tags
  trunk
    apps
      backend
      frontend
    cache
    [...]
    lib
      [...]
      vendor
        symfony    /* SVN external to symfony sources */
    log
    plugins
      sfThemePlugin    /* SVN external to sfThemePlugin */
      xxMyPlugin    /* SVN external to a plugin repository I develop */
    test
    web

In this way, I was able to :

  • Load an entire project in my favorite IDE with vendors, plugins and my own plugins
  • Able to update symfony, plugins and other vendors from their respective repositories
  • Work on my own plugins and commit them without switching of project

Now I would like to do the same with a Symfony2 project and Git. The problems are :

  • The Sf2 Git repository contains a ‘src’ and a ‘test’ folder in its root so my project repository cannot include the Sf2 sources as I did with sf1.4 without generating conflicts if I add some files in ‘src’ and/or ‘test’ to my project or want to update the sf2 sources.
  • I would like my bundles to have their own repositories and be able to work on them, switch of branches, commit and push/pull without having to switch of project, commit and push the bundles source independently and then update my main project submodules.

What would be the best approach to do this ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think there is a confusion.

    As you are talking about a src and a test folder, I guess that you are using this repo : https://github.com/symfony/symfony and not the “standard” edition. In this situation, don’t put the content in your repository root but in the vendor/symfony folder.

    So you will get the structure you want by managing bundles and vendors through submodules.

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