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May we use git with a Drupal Site ?

Because I'm trying to use Git with a Drupal site and it seems that not all the information that are pushed !!!

Thank you

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  • Did someone set up the .gitignore file? It might be ignoring some files, but that might be a good thing. Most people don't want to shove Drupal core into the repo.
    – RaisinBranCrunch
    Jul 13, 2016 at 20:01
  • The .gitignore files are empty ... yeah it will be a very good thing -- I hope that it is possible!!
    – taboubim
    Jul 13, 2016 at 20:04
  • You're not trying to push website content with git, right? Just the code?
    – beth
    Jul 13, 2016 at 20:08
  • all the things, code and content ? is it possible ?
    – taboubim
    Jul 13, 2016 at 20:11

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Git is a source code management (SCM) system. There are many different source code management systems out there and Git fall into the category of a distributed version control system (DVCS). It takes a "peer-to-peer" approach to version control as opposed to a "Client-Server" approach like version control systems like Subversion (SVN).

Yes we can use GIT with drupal.

To setup a GIT repository in drupal project please visit below link.

Git Setup

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Yes. It is typical practice to manage Drupal with a VCS, with Git being the defacto option; Drupal core, as well as all projects on drupal.org, uses Git as its VCS.

Drupal includes some default git configurations. D7 has a default .gitignore config. D8 has an example.gitignore config which isn't applied by default. There is also a default .gitattributes for white space settings.

You'll have to troubleshoot what is/is not include in your codebase. Typically, the gitignore settings exclude content & settings data from the code repo.

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  • Oh !! where may I find the default drupal gitignore file ?? because this one is blocking the content to be updated !
    – taboubim
    Jul 13, 2016 at 20:07
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    It's in the site root. BTW, using a VCS to store content is considered bad practice; a VCS is for managing code, not data. Putting all your content into your VCS can blow up its size pretty quickly depending on how much content you have.
    – Shawn Conn
    Jul 13, 2016 at 20:10
  • So for the content I use "export and import" the database ?
    – taboubim
    Jul 13, 2016 at 20:11
  • There are many solutions out there, it will depend on your needs. The Drupal Backup and Migrate project is one solution to migrating over both DB & file system content.
    – Shawn Conn
    Jul 13, 2016 at 21:17
  • @ShawnConn my naive way of handling it was creating a separate repo and doing mysqldump, after i clear cache of course.
    – Daedalus
    Jul 13, 2016 at 23:10

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