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 core | C branch

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

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