Update: I've abandoned support of this project in favour of using drush. Check it out. You'll love it
I sometimes use Drupal for my web development work.
As part of my development workflow, I pull any Drupal Core and Contributed source from Drupal CVS. I call the resulting collection of code my local Drupal source tree and use make in my various Drupal projects to build in the Core and Contrib that I need from this tree. This way I can keep everything in one place, control updates, and use SVN for my Drupal projects without effecting the CVS control of the source tree.
dstm is a simple bash script I created some time ago to manage this Drupal source tree. dstm can update the entire tree using one command. I can keep a dstm profile for any version dependencies of Contrib projects within specific Drupal branches (versions) and dstm will find the latest version of a module without having to look up the CVS Tag that controls module versioning. dstm also generates a sample Makefile for new Drupal projects.
Due to interest from others who wanted to use dstm in their own workflow, I decided to clean up the script and release it. Please use it if you think it useful.
Note: I am aware of the drush project. At the time I used it, drush was really great but dtsm solved a few different problem for me. However, you should also check it out.
More documentation to come.
Usage
dstm init = dstm clean; dstm get profile; dstm build
dstm build = dstm get core; dstm get module; dstm get theme
dstm get module | M project branch version
dstm get theme | T project branch version
dstm update = dstm update all
dstm update profile
dstm update core | C branch | all
dstm update module | M project | all branch
dstm update theme | T project | all branch
dstm delete = dstm delete all
dstm delete profile
dstm delete core | C branch | all
dstm delete module | M project | all branch
dstm delete theme | T project | all branch
dstm info = dstm info all
dstm info profile
dstm info core | C branch | all
dstm info module| M project | all branch
dstm info theme| T project | all branch
Options
-q | --quiet
-v | --verbose
-f | --force
Examples
To automatically create a Drupal source tree for your development environment:
dstm init
To view what Drupal core items are in your tree:
dstm info core
To view what Drupal 6 modules are in your tree:
dstm info module 6
Edit the profile:
dstm update profile
To retrieve the most recent Views module for all branches defined in the profile and use the verbose option to see what version is actually retrieved:
dstm -v get module view
To retrieve a specific version of the Date module for Drupal 5:
dstm get module date 5 1.8
To delete all Drupal 5 core and contrib modules from your source tree:
dstm del C 5; dstm del M 5;
Environment
DSTM_BASE
DSTM_CVS_REPO
DSTM_CVS_CONTRIB_REPO
DSTM_CVS_CONTRIB_REPO_DIR
DSTM_TREE_CORE
DSTM_TREE_MODULE
DSTM_TREE_THEME
DSTM_PROFILE
DSTM_ERROR_LOG
EDITOR
