Title: Embedded git repository warning Last modified: July 19, 2018 --- # Embedded git repository warning * Resolved [brees](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brees/) * (@brees) * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedded-git-repository-warning/) * Hello, * Our WordPress site’s version control is managed with git. When I download the plugin and manually install, I get some warnings about adding embedded git repositories. Can I safely ignore these warnings? How should I handle them? This is the entirety of the response in the terminal: * warning: adding embedded git repository: wp-content/plugins/object-sync-for-salesforce/ vendor/a5hleyrich/wp-background-processing hint: You’ve added another git repository inside your current repository. hint: Clones of the outer repository will not contain the contents of hint: the embedded repository and will not know how to obtain it. hint: If you meant to add a submodule, use: hint: hint: git submodule add wp-content/plugins/object-sync-for-salesforce/vendor/a5hleyrich/wp- background-processing hint: hint: If you added this path by mistake, you can remove it from the hint: index with: hint: hint: git rm –cached wp-content/plugins/ object-sync-for-salesforce/vendor/a5hleyrich/wp-background-processing hint: hint: See “git help submodule” for more information. warning: adding embedded git repository: wp-content/plugins/object-sync-for-salesforce/vendor/developerforce/force.com- toolkit-for-php warning: adding embedded git repository: wp-content/plugins/object- sync-for-salesforce/vendor/pippinsplugins/wp-logging * I’m sorry – I searched and couldn’t find any reference to this. * Thank you, Brandon Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * Plugin Author [Jonathan Stegall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonathanstegall/) * (@jonathanstegall) * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedded-git-repository-warning/#post-10509584) * Hm, I haven’t seen that message myself. I’m inclined to think it is not a problem, but rather that we need to make sure the .git folders from the vendor libraries are not included in the plugin. * But before I say you can safely ignore it, can you verify that the following files exist? * 1. /wp-content/plugins/object-sync-for-salesforce/vendor/pippinsplugins/wp-logging/ WP_Logging.php 2. /wp-content/plugins/object-sync-for-salesforce/vendor/a5leyrich/ wp-background-processing/wp-background-processing.php * If so, I think you should be okay to ignore, but this is a thing I’ll try to address in our next release. * Thread Starter [brees](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brees/) * (@brees) * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedded-git-repository-warning/#post-10509837) * Wow, you are fast! * After manually dropping the folder in /wp-content/plugins/ and running git add., I see these in the output (niether of which have the .php extension, while other added files do): * new file: wp-content/plugins/object-sync-for-salesforce/vendor/a5hleyrich/wp- background-processing new file: wp-content/plugins/object-sync-for-salesforce/ vendor/pippinsplugins/wp-logging * Here’s what git won’t stage: * modified: wp-content/plugins/object-sync-for-salesforce/vendor/developerforce/ force.com-toolkit-for-php (modified content) * Thread Starter [brees](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brees/) * (@brees) * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedded-git-repository-warning/#post-10509841) * I can probably just remove the .gitignore files from the vendor directories, yes? * Plugin Author [Jonathan Stegall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonathanstegall/) * (@jonathanstegall) * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedded-git-repository-warning/#post-10510103) * Yes, I think you’re right. I’ve updated the plugin directory’s repo to reflect this as well, although I haven’t flagged it as a new version. * But try that and see if it works. I think it will. I haven’t had to do this myself but it makes sense that this would be an issue for some configurations. * Thread Starter [brees](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brees/) * (@brees) * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedded-git-repository-warning/#post-10510149) * Hmm. Git won’t stage these, even after removing all of the .gitignore files: * modified: wp-content/plugins/object-sync-for-salesforce/vendor/a5hleyrich/wp- background-processing (modified content, untracked content) modified: wp-content/ plugins/object-sync-for-salesforce/vendor/developerforce/force.com-toolkit-for- php (modified content, untracked content) * If these don’t get committed am I going to run into issues? Feels like I will. * Plugin Author [Jonathan Stegall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonathanstegall/) * (@jonathanstegall) * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedded-git-repository-warning/#post-10510302) * Yes, if the files from those directories are missing, there’ll be issues. I’m no Git expert, so I’m a bit out of my league there. But here are some things I’m inclined to think you could try: * 1. Re install the plugin from the WP repository and see if you can do kind of a reset. Perhaps it has been confused by the unnecessary git files and a fresh install would fix that? 2. Install the plugin from GitHub. I hope you don’t have to do that, unless you prefer doing that, but it does have a repository at [https://github.com/MinnPost/object-sync-for-salesforce](https://github.com/MinnPost/object-sync-for-salesforce). * Thread Starter [brees](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brees/) * (@brees) * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedded-git-repository-warning/#post-10512703) * Let me give those a shot. Thank you so much for all the help. 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