46. Summary of how to use release hotfix and feature branches a Drupal how-to

This is one of over videos in a -hour series on called Change Management and Version Control. 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 arent 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. You can watch over 7 hours of FREE focused Drupal video tutorials on To view the entire list of over videos totaling over hours simply go to and scroll down. There are currently 5 collections available including: Heres a short excerpt from the video: Now just to summarize these three different types of branches a release branch is a holding area for code that can be tested and fixed before it gets pushed to production. It gets branched directly from the develop branch and when its done it gets pushed to production or the master branch it gets merged back into the development branch and then it gets deleted. The purpose of a hotfix branch is to take a bug that we find on the master branch that needs immediate attention and do a branch d... Here are a few things that viewers have had to say about Many thanks for the terrific video series on Drupal 7 - your excellent videos are simply the best source of training and information on Drupal in existence! Chris has put together some of the best Drupal training material Ive seen to date. I run a Drupal shop and several of my developers have used Build a Module.com to get up to speed with working in Drupal 7. From what Ive heard they found the experience extremely valuable and whats great for us as a team is that they can always go back and review material when theyre tackling a particular problem. Firstly let me say that I am finding your videos extremely helpful. Its always difficult at first to get into something new but your videos are really helping me find my way in. I recently bought the download of your twelve Drupal 7 Core Concepts videos. I am new to Drupal and they are excellent. In fact they are the best tutorial videos I have ever used in the past ten years of teaching myself HTML and PHP and then Joomla I know I was just experimenting. and now Drupal. To start learning how to build sites develop code or theme in Drupal check out the full video library at ,

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