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It is hard to imagine a tool as useful as drush make when automating updates or running continuous integration.drush make allows you to exactly replicate a site’s core and contrib code based on a single file. You can specify which patches to apply to contrib modules, if any. When a module is not version-pinned, it also allows … Continued
A brief introduction to Features A common problem encountered while deploying updates Drupal instances lies in the fact that much of Drupal’s configuration data lives in the database rather than in code. In general, it is considered a truism that code is deployed from dev to test to production, while data is deployed from production … Continued
When a contrib module needs patching, that patch should be submitted upstream to the maintainers of the module on drupal.org. This means that domain-specific business logic should not be patched into contrib modules. Instead, where necessary, submit a patch to the upstream module to expose an alter hook. Then put your domain-specific business logic in … Continued
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