Pushing a feature modification and explaining unsolicited changes
Description
Chapter: How To Version Control Site Configuration With Features
Transcript
So, I'm going to jump over to "my developments" site. Now we're going to hop over to Gary's site in just a minute. But let's make a modification here.
And then export it as an update to our "feature" module. So on this site, what we're going to do is change the number of rows in our "body" field that display. So, I'm going to click on "Structure", "Content Types", "manage fields", "edit, next to the "Body" input and then I'm going to scroll down and for "Rows", I'm going to put "ten" instead of twenty.
And then I'm going to click "Save settings". Now if we go back to our "Features" listing, we'll see that the "STATE" is now "Overridden". Let's export this into code by "recreating" and then we don't need to add any new components, so let's just go and download the feature.
I'm going to go ahead and expand the tarball and then I'm just going to copy all the files inside of the module. And I'm going to go over to our "sites, all, modules, features" folder inside of our "articles" folder and I'm going to paste all of these in, overriding everything that's there. And I'm going to go back to the browser and go back to the "Features" listings and now we see that the "STATE" is "Default".
So if we jump to the command line and do a quick diff. I'm going to skip over to the development environment here. And I'm going to clear the back-scroll and I'm going to do "git diff".
We'll see the changes that we made to our component. Now there's actually quite a few changes here that we didn't explicitly make. For example, this "required" change from "FALSE" to "zero".
The "display_s ...
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Skill level: Beginner - Advanced
In this series we uncover how to use powerful tools to speed up and stabilize the Drupal development process. We begin with a thorough walk-through of Git, the version control system. After we cover how to patch modules and upgrade Drupal from one minor version to another, we demonstrate how to use the Features module to version control components of Drupal that aren't typically available to version control. Finally, we wrap up with how to integrate Drush - a powerful command line tool for Drupal - into your workflow to speed up the process of doing everything we discussed earlier in the series.
Some of the key points we'll be covering include:
- How to use the command line
- How to work with the Features module to capture important database changes and make deployment easier.
- How to use Git for version control
- Best practices for working on a Drupal team
Who this collection is for
This video collection is mainly for developers who want to improve their deployment strategies and learn how to work on a shared Drupal code base with other developers. However, even if you are not a developer, our coverage of using Features and version control is extremely valuable for deploying Drupal sites and sharing reusable components between projects.
Prerequisites
Even if you are not a developer, you will be able to follow with most of this collection. When we talk about code we do not go into detail about the basic components of the code, so you may want to brush up on some coding basics in the "PHP Programming Basics" collection.
Chapters
- 49:44Installing Git and Working on the Command Line
- 58:18Staging, Committing and Undoing in Git
- 10:53Introduction to version control
- 6:31How to stage and unstage files and what staging means
- 2:28How to commit a file and stage multiple files
- 5:59Why certain files are ignored and how to add your own ignored files
- 3:05How to commit unstaged changes and modify staged files
- 4:49How to use the diff command to review modifications
- 3:27How to use git help
- 5:00How to use SmartGit to view graphical diffs and revision trees
- 5:52How to undo modifications to staged and unstaged files
- 2:17How to use the log command for viewing revision information
- 5:51How to undo commits
- 2:06Quick summary of undoing in Git
- 34:49Branching, Merging and Tagging in Git
- 3:54How to move files in Git
- 4:06Introduction to branching and merging in Git
- 5:09How to create a new branch and navigate existing branches
- 5:14How to merge with and without branch history
- 1:31How to modify an existing commit message
- 0:52How to delete a branch
- 5:19How to use a stash to save uncommited changes when switching branches
- 3:01How to apply a saved stash
- 2:23Quickly commiting, merging and deleting a branch
- 3:20How to add, remove, list and rename tags
- 63:37Working With Remote Git Repositories
- 2:58How remote central repositories work
- 11:05How to create an account on GitHub and set up SSH key pair authentication
- 6:11How to set up a remote repository and connect to it
- 1:16What we'll be doing now with our remote repository
- 3:09How to clone our remote repository into a production environment
- 5:00How to push a change from dev to production with push, fetch and merge
- 1:33How to push a change from dev to production with push and pull
- 6:50How to undo commits to a remote repository
- 3:17How to push changes from production to dev
- 8:56What conflicts are and how to resolve them
- 3:23How to create a branch and track it remotely
- 6:58How to create a release with a develop-master branch system
- 3:01How to set up a new environment for a team member
- 38:05Deploying Releases, Features, and Fixes With Git
- 6:41How to use a scalable Git branching model called Gitflow
- 1:38Summary of how to use release, hotfix and feature branches
- 8:37How to create, deploy and clean up a release branch
- 1:26Release branch cycle summary
- 5:09How to create, deploy and clean up a hotfix branch
- 8:55How to troubleshoot pushes, pulls and conflicts with a feature branch
- 3:02Merging an update into a feature branch, then deploying and cleaning up
- 2:37Summary of lessons learned in the feature branch cycle
- 24:55How to Version Control the Database
- 5:50Overview of database components you can add to version control
- 2:57Where to store version controlled assets
- 2:03How to set up an assets folder that is not accessible via the web
- 3:31How to export a database schema for version control
- 4:09How to export database content for version control
- 3:03Cleaning up our assets folder and rolling our assets into a feature branch
- 3:22How often should you update version controlled database dumps and why
- 74:09How To Version Control Site Configuration With Features
- 9:25Overview of a typical push cycle, with and without version control
- 1:50How to download and install the Features module
- 10:09How to build a feature module, and how each component group works
- 1:47The 3 big benefits of having our components in a feature module
- 2:48How to revert a modification to a feature module component
- 3:41How to install and use the Diff module to view feature module overrides
- 7:44How to learn more about your feature by reviewing the code
- 5:33How to update a feature and review updates with Git diff
- 1:43How to revert a feature once changes are in code
- 3:08How to deploy a feature module
- 2:38Overview of merging multi-user changes to the same component
- 3:04Pushing a feature modification and explaining unsolicited changes
- 8:41How to merge our feature component changes and update a feature module
- 4:09How to organize features and implications of getting everything into code
- 2:57How to re-organize components into new features with the UI or the .info file
- 4:52Overview of other exportable components and enabling a copied feature module
- 25:49How To Manage Non-Exportable Configuration Changes
- 2:07Overview of using Selenium IDE to store config-building macros
- 7:08How to create and modify a Selenium macro that builds a node
- 4:17How to export Selenium tests and creating one more test
- 2:36How to keep team members up to speed with manual changes using a simple list
- 3:39How to package several repository modifications into multiple commits
- 6:02How to load and play back Selenium tests to update another environment
- 57:05How to Override Shared Features and Modify Text
- 4:53The challenges of overriding shared feature modules and some solutions
- 4:45How to override a box title, and how to learn about what else we can change
- 4:00How to override block position, and a brief overview of the Context module
- 2:57How to override user permissions
- 5:40How to override Views options like title, ajax and number per page
- 4:40How to override a Views query, like changing node type or order
- 2:52How to override a menu item title
- 4:51How to override variables and how the Strongarm module works
- 3:44How to modify interface text and version control the overrides
- 5:19How to use a version controlled settings.php include to share settings
- 6:09How to find and override strings with dynamic content or links
- 7:15How to override a feature module by cloning
- 33:12How to Upgrade Drupal and Patch Contributed Modules
- 37:20How to Install Drupal, Manage Features and Perform Common Tasks Using Drush
- 5:31Introduction to Drush, the ultimate Drupal productivity tool
- 2:53How to install Drush on a Mac
- 1:12How to install Drush on Windows
- 4:25How to use Drush status, help, clear-cache and archive-dump
- 2:04Overview of using Drush to speed up Features
- 5:44How to update, review and revert feature modules with Drush
- 3:44How to add new components to a feature module with the .info file and Drush
- 5:35How to download and install Drupal using Drush
- 2:14How to download and enable a module or theme using Drush
- 3:58How to update Drupal core and contributed modules using Drush
- 31:37How to Configure Drush and use Drush Make
- 3:59How to set up a Drush configuration file (drushrc.php) and use shell aliases
- 1:52How to set up a global Drush configuration file
- 4:35How to use Drush aliases to simultaneously work with multiple Drupal installations
- 3:43How to set up a remote site alias for Drush
- 3:20Why building site scaffolding is tricky and how Drush Make can save you time
- 1:45How to install Drush Make and any Drush extension
- 6:27How to create and run a Drush Make file
- 3:27How to generate a Drush Make file from an existing Drupal installation
- 2:29How to quickly generate a Drush Make file with drushmake.me
- 37:02How to Extend Drush and Other Useful Drush Tools
- 3:53How to review and filter Watchdog log messages with Drush
- 4:43How to add, remove and manage users with Drush
- 5:01How to extend Drush with PHP scripts and run arbitrary PHP on-the-fly
- 5:42How to pass arguments to a custom PHP script for use with the Drush php-script command
- 4:09How to install and use the Drush sandwich example command
- 4:51How the Drush example custom sandwich command works
- 5:20How to create a custom Drush command
- 3:23How to perform SQL queries in Drush and quickly set variables
