Setting up the workspace for each release

[Former Member]

Every time we have new release, to have the new workspace up, I am having to copy the entire Hybris OOB folder and checkout our 'custom' folder (where we have our custom extensions) under bin folder. I might have to maintain multiple workspace at one time. I end up creating so many copies this way. Is there any other easier solution for it? Can I have build file modified to have it refer 'custom' folder at different location and need not be under 'bin' folder.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear Anoop,

I am not sure whether I understand your issue correctly. If you are looking to refer your custom extensions from single place each time instead of copying them, you can refer that path in localextensions.xml in your new OOTB hybris with another path directory as shown below.

 <path dir="${HYBRIS_BIN_DIR}" />
         
 <path dir="C:\Work\****\folder" />
 
          <extension name="customcock" />
          <extension name="custompromotion" />
          <extension name="customhmc" />

If you are expecting some thing other than this, Please do let me know. I will find an alternate approach.

Thanks, Jayahar

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Jayakumar for sharing this. This should work. Let me give it a shot.

[Former Member]

Instead of specifying the absolute path, you could create symbolic links, this would mean, your extensions are present in a different location than bin/custom, but still appear under bin/custom. this way, you can have different branches checked-out(in different folders) and update the symlink with the one you would want to use.

[Former Member]

Cant you use SVN/Git for this? So you can switch to a branch, which can be linked to a specific release.