Re:Drupal's Golden Handcuffs
by mechanical_fish on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @03:09AM
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Views, specifically, have been exportable into version-controlled code since Drupal 5, and the ability to do so is a prominent feature in Views v3 for Drupal 7. Indeed, the Feature module, which spearheaded the current effort to make every Drupal configuration setting expressible in version-controlled, script-deployable code, is based on a pattern invented by Views years ago.
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Exporting views to code has been shaky at best. And worse: once it's exported to code, there is no way to only import the bits that have changed. You must recreate the whole thing anew.
That's not version control, that's an export function.