Any way to avoid duplication between git repos

[justin808]

I noticed that the jquery-ujs is in 2 places on github:

• https://github.com/rails/jquery-rails/blob/master/vendor/assets/javascripts/jquery_ujs.js
• https://github.com/rails/jquery-ujs/blob/master/src/rails.js
• How are these kept in sync?
• Are there advantages (or necessities) doing it this way?
• In the long term, should the duplication be avoided, and maybe jquery-rails could refer to the version number?

[rafaelfranca]

One is the source code other is the packaged version.

How are these kept in sync?

They don't need to. Only when we need to release a new version of jquery-rails

jquery-rails/Rakefile

Lines 53 to 57 in 04fcfa2

	task :update_jquery_ujs do
	puts "Downloading jquery_ujs.js"
	puts `curl -o vendor/assets/javascripts/jquery_ujs.js https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rails/jquery-ujs/v#{Jquery::Rails::JQUERY_UJS_VERSION}/src/rails.js`
	puts "\e[32mDone!\e[0m"
	end

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Are there advantages (or necessities) doing it this way?

We decouple the development of jquery-rails and jquery-ujs. So we don't need to have things like upgrading jquery version on the jquery-ujs repository.

In the long term, should the duplication be avoided, and maybe jquery-rails could refer to the version number?

I don't see why. It already refer to the version number.