[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #41078: Detect if someone’s site is under version control, and suggest better ways to edit their sites

[WordPress Trac]

#41078: Detect if someone’s site is under version control, and suggest better ways
to edit their sites
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 Reporter:  karmatosed      |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)    |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  4.9
Component:  Administration  |     Version:
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  close           |     Focuses:
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Changes (by westonruter):

 * keywords:   => close


Comment:

 One solution that comes to mind is that WordPress could detect whether or
 not a theme or plugin's files are versioned by first locating the `.git`
 or `.svn` directory to sniff the VCS type, and then it could run `svn info
 %s` or `git ls-files --error-unmatch %s` to determine if it is versioned.

 While that would work, it would also not work reliably across WordPress
 installs because hosts will often disable shell commands. This is the same
 issue we're facing in wanting to add a PHP linter for CodeMirror in
 #41873. So unless there is a way to sniff inside of `.git` and `.svn`
 directories to find out whether a given file is versioned (as @dd32
 notes), I don't see this as being feasible. I also don't think we want to
 write Git or SVN clients in PHP.

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