Working as a Drupal developer for many years, I learned a few good ways to manage development workflow well and achieve perfect release management process. Working mainly with Drupal and relying on Git for development, I always recommend other developers – that are not familiar with Git – to start using it. Git is not a rocket science and it offers many benefits, especially when it comes to complex projects with many developers working on it in parallel. Several times I was asked how to version control a database. All modern CMS websites have their configuration split between the code and the database, it may become critical to version control the database-based configuration. The main reason is that other developers could pick up configuration changes easily during their daily development routine. How to version control a database? The short answer is “No, you don’t!”. Instead, you make the configuration changes to the database via code and then you version control the code. In this article I will share my experience in managing several Drupal 7 and Drupal 8projects, where my team was sharing the database configuration via Git. Such approach allows for smooth configuration sharing in the team and avoid configuration conflicts. What part of […]