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Using GIT with DrupalDrupal Camp Sydney - 18 Oct 2008
Who am I
A long time member of the Drupal community. About 7 yrs
Full time Drupal consultant
Lead maintainer of the e-Commerce system
What is GIT
A Source Code Management system created by Linus Torvalds
Decentralized SCM
Amazing branching and merging capibilities
Extremely Fast
Advantages of Git
All commits are guaranteed to be written as is to the repository
Has a chain of evidence to seeing who wrote the patch, who tested the patch, and who committed the patch.
Branches are quick and inexpensive
Merges are extremely powerful
Using Git with Drupal
Interfacing with CVS
Built in ability to access other SCM systems like CVS, SVN, and others.
Can usually import and export to other SCM
Getting code of out contrib.
git cvsimport -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvs/drupal-contrib -C modulename -a contributions/modules/name_of_contrib_module
Committing changes
Make changes
git add filename
git commit
Exporting changes back
GIT_DIR=path_to_.git git cvsexportcommit -cv hash
Creating a branch
git branch branch_name head_of branch
git checkout branch_name
Merging
git merge branch_name
Using GIT for clients
Base System
Has all modules that I use with all clients. views, cck, panels etc
Update any changes to base system in 1 place.
Creating a site
git clone base new_system
git branch website
Installing new modules
Download tarball from drupal.org, unpack and commit to the repository
Uploading to remote site.Set up remote repository
git clone --bare site site.git
copy site.git to webserver
add remote section to .git/config
git push website
Add to hook to automatically pull the changing into the site
Updating Site from Base
git pull
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