You should treat your Git repository that is hosted by Acquia as a repository for build artifacts created as part of your continuous integration (CI) setup, with your chosen workflow determining how direct changes are prepared for inclusion through CI. Depending on the size of your team, Acquia recommends that you use either the Feature branch workflow or the Gitflow workflow as you develop and maintain your Site Factory code.
For more information about using Git, including clients and basic commands, see Using Git.
The feature branch workflow is a development style that is well-suited for small teams, which encourages having all feature development work take place on a dedicated branch of your Git repository, instead of committing locally to the standard master branch. A sample workflow is as follows:
Site Factorymaster branch) to start work on a new feature.origin, which is the remote of the developer’s forked repository.master, giving other team members the chance to review the developer’s work.master branch.Larger teams should instead consider the Gitflow workflow as it provides better release management than the simpler feature branch workflow.
The Gitflow workflow extends the feature branch workflow by requiring developers to submit pull requests against a develop branch which serves as an integration branch for new feature, while maintaining a stable master branch that remains in a good state.
Here is a description of a sample workflow based on Gitflow:
develop branch) to start work on a new feature.origin, which is the remote of the developer’s forked repository.develop branch, giving other team members the chance to review the developer’s work prior to merging into the develop branch.develop branch, a new release branch is created off of the develop branch.develop branch, while the release team prepares the release branch to add only what is necessary for the release.release branch is merged back into master.develop branch is rebased onto master to incorporate the changes made in the latest release.In this development strategy, any needed hotfixes are merged directly into a hotfix branch, which can then be merged with master.
The underlying principle: production is an artifact of development. Put differently, the things that you need to run your Drupal site in a production capacity are not the same things that you need to develop your Drupal site locally.
For instance, you can use a suite of tools like Lando, Documentation, CHANGELOGs, Unoptimized Images, PHP CodeSniffer, and SASS to develop your Drupal application. These are tools used to produce your site, but not your site. Therefore, these tools do not belong on your production server.
The build process is intended to take your development “source” code and produce an artifact that is production ready. Often, this means removing development-only packages, sanitizing your codebase, and optimizing your application for performance.
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You should treat your Git repository that is hosted by Acquia as a repository for build artifacts created as part of your continuous integration (CI) setup, with your chosen workflow determining how direct changes are prepared for inclusion through CI. Depending on the size of your team, Acquia recommends that you use either the Feature branch workflow or the Gitflow workflow as you develop and maintain your Site Factory code.
For more information about using Git, including clients and basic commands, see Using Git.
The feature branch workflow is a development style that is well-suited for small teams, which encourages having all feature development work take place on a dedicated branch of your Git repository, instead of committing locally to the standard master branch. A sample workflow is as follows:
master branch) to start work on a new feature.origin, which is the remote of the developer’s forked repository.master, giving other team members the chance to review the developer’s work.master branch.Larger teams should instead consider the Gitflow workflow as it provides better release management than the simpler feature branch workflow.
The Gitflow workflow extends the feature branch workflow by requiring developers to submit pull requests against a develop branch which serves as an integration branch for new feature, while maintaining a stable master branch that remains in a good state.
Here is a description of a sample workflow based on Gitflow:
develop branch) to start work on a new feature.origin, which is the remote of the developer’s forked repository.develop branch, giving other team members the chance to review the developer’s work prior to merging into the develop branch.develop branch, a new release branch is created off of the develop branch.develop branch, while the release team prepares the release branch to add only what is necessary for the release.release branch is merged back into master.develop branch is rebased onto master to incorporate the changes made in the latest release.In this development strategy, any needed hotfixes are merged directly into a hotfix branch, which can then be merged with master.
The underlying principle: production is an artifact of development. Put differently, the things that you need to run your Drupal site in a production capacity are not the same things that you need to develop your Drupal site locally.
For instance, you can use a suite of tools like Lando, Documentation, CHANGELOGs, Unoptimized Images, PHP CodeSniffer, and SASS to develop your Drupal application. These are tools used to produce your site, but not your site. Therefore, these tools do not belong on your production server.
The build process is intended to take your development “source” code and produce an artifact that is production ready. Often, this means removing development-only packages, sanitizing your codebase, and optimizing your application for performance.
If this content did not answer your questions, try searching or contacting our support team for further assistance.