Using GIT with Drupal
Drupal 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:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/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

Questions