Slides for April 2009 ASU Drupal Users Group

Submitted by Jeff Beeman on Thu, 04/23/2009 - 17:12

Attached below are the slides for the April, 2009 ASU Drupal Users Group presentation I gave on maintaining sites using a combination of CVS (to checkout Drupal core and contrib modules) and Subversion (for backing up your site's code base and integrating with locally maintained modules and themes).

Here's a quick rundown of links mentioned in the presentation:

Read on after the break for code samples.

A quick reference for the shell scripts we created (OS X):

Create or update ~/.bash_profile

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

Bash script for checking out Drupal core

Create the shortcut command, drcvs_core in /usr/local/bin/:

#!/bin/bash

cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal co -d $1 -r DRUPAL-$2 drupal

Make the file executable:

chmod ugo+x /usr/local/bin/drcvs_core

Bash script for checking out Drupal modules

Note: Be sure to make the bash script executable (see above).

Create the shortcut command, drcvs_module in /usr/local/bin/:

#!/bin/bash

cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal-contrib checkout -r DRUPAL-$2 -d $1 contributions/modules/$1

Bash script for checking out Drupal themes

Note: Be sure to make the bash script executable (see above).

Create the shortcut command, drcvs_theme in /usr/local/bin/:

#!/bin/bash

cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal-contrib checkout -r DRUPAL-$2 -d $1 contributions/themes/$1

Bash script for cleaning up for Subversion after a CVS update

Note: Be sure to make the bash script executable (see above).

Create the shortcut command, drcvs_cleanup in /usr/local/bin/:

#!/bin/bash

for FILE in `svn status $1 | grep '?'`; do svn add $FILE; done; 

for FILE in `svn status $1 | grep '!'`; do svn rm $FILE; done;

Sample usage

Checkout Drupal core from CVS and commit to Subversion

cd /path/to/subversion/branches/folder 

drcvs_core cvs-demo 6-9

svn add cvs-demo 

svn commit -m "Adding drupal core for cvs demo site"

Checkout modules from CVS and add to Subversion

cd sites/all/modules 

drcvs_module cck 6--2-2 

drcvs_module views 6--2-4 

drcvs_module cvs_deploy 6--1-0

svn add * 

svn commit -m "Add CCK, Views and CVS Deploy modules"

Checkout a theme from CVS and add to Subversion

drcvs_theme zen 6--1-0

svn add zen 

svn commit -m "Add Zen theme"

Updating Drupal core or modules from CVS

cd /path/to/drupal 

cvs up -dP -r DRUPAL-6-10 

drcvs_cleanup . 

svn commit -m "Update to Drupal 6.10"

cd /path/to/views 

cvs up -dP -r DRUPAL-6--2-5 

drcvs_cleanup . 

svn commit -m "Update to Views 6.x-2.5"

Telling Subversion to ignore files

cd /path/to/sites/default 

svn propedit svn:ignore . 

# Add ‘settings.php’ to the first line of the file and save it 

svn commit . -m "Ignore settings.php"

Referencing an external Subversion project

cd /path/to/themes 

svn propedit svn:externals .

Add the following to new line(s) in the file 

asuzen https://opensource.asu.edu/svn/asuzen/branches/asuzen-6.x/

Retrieve the external project and commit the change 

svn up 

svn commit -m "Add external reference to ASU Zen theme"

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Comments

Submitted by geld verdienen (not verified) on Sat, 06/27/2009 - 20:27.

Thanks buddy, this has been real helpful. My first time working with SVN CVS and it worked great thank to this article.

Submitted by Bill (not verified) on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 13:34.

thanks for the tips, i think a lot of this makes my life a lot easier. great post!

Submitted by Damien (not verified) on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 15:56.

Hi! I just wanted to say thanks for this great presentation!

I have been preaching this exact setup for these exact reasons exactly! But lacked this awesome presentation material to just simply explain it.