Every day, we deal with version control. It's good to know about the best practices, especially in Drupal projects. Pascal updated all developers at netnode about how we work with SVN and gave us a tips and hints. More about that on http://www.netnode.ch/blog

1. drupal session 4
Drupal version control
@netnode
Topic: Drupal version control @netnode
Date: 27.02.2012
Presenter: Pascal Arnet
Twitter: @netnode
Blog: http://www.netnode.ch/blog
http://www.netnode.ch - pure drupal - drupal development services

2. What we ll know in 15min?
• SVN Checkout to webroot
• Handle settings.php
• SVN property svn:ignore
• Drush module upgrade together with SVN
• SVN Dos and Don’ts

3. Checkout to webroot
• uid of SVN checkout is important to work
with Webserver gid/uid
• FTP user with shell access. Strong passwords
• svn co http://URL/svn/REPO_NAME/trunk .
• Do not use root for checkout

4. Handle settings.php
• Problems
• Different configuration (dev/test/
production) for the same project (db,
error_reporting)
• Different developers with custom setup
• if ($_SERVER['http_host’] ==
‘dev.netnode.me’) {
} else {
}

5. Handle settings.php
• Solution
• Different settings.php files (settings-dev,
settings-test, settings-prod, setttings-
pascal)
• Make symlink or copy as settings.php
• Exclude settings.php from SVN
• Include settings-global.php for common
settings

6. SVN property svn:ignore
• Filter for directory content
• svn propset svn:ignore "*" log/
• svn propedit svn:ignore .
• export SVN_EDITOR=vim
• ?, *, [ ] as patterns
• sites/default/files
• sites/default/settings.php

7. Drush module upgrade with SVN
• Drush up --version-control=svn --svnsync
--svncommit

8. SVN Dos and Don’ts
• Dos
• Commit often
• Commit at least once a day
• Use http:// notation of checkout URL
• Don’ts
• svn add –force *
• svn co/up with user root

9. More information?
• http://buildamodule.com/video/change-
management-and-version-control-how-to-
override-shared-features-and-modify-text-how-
to-use-a-version-controlled-settings-php-
include-to-share-settings
• http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/
svn.advanced.props.special.ignore.html
• Drush help up

10. Discussion
• Questions?

11. drupal pur
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