Revision Control
presentation by: Tom Friedhof

What I’ll cover today.
• I’ll talk about Revision Control Concepts
• CVS, SVN, git
• How Drupal Ninjas Install Drupal and
Contrib Modules (from CVS).
• How Drupal’s release system works.
• (i.e. Branches and Tags)

What I’ll cover today. (cont.)
• Installing Updates.
• Creating Patches and Applying Patches
• Managing Your Development Environment
and Custom Changes with CVS and SVN.
• Demo (if we have time)

What is Revision Control?
• A software system for sharing information
• Keeps Track all changes made to a set of
files.
• Allows for collaborative editing of data.

Centralized
vs.
De-centralized

Centralized Version Control
Staging Server