How do you use GIT with PW?

[benbyf]

Feel like this is a perennial question and probably a duplicate...BUT I have a load of new PW sites and in the past I've git'ed on the template/ folders to gitlab, bitbucket, github or similar.

What are people doing to version control with PW as I would love to add more than the templates folder ideally (as I often make custom Modules) but wondered what people's strategies are?

[elabx]

Might be easier to tell what I exclude which is:

•  /site/assets
•  /vendor
• multiple things like "site/modules/ComposerModule" , example of any module that I manage through composer rather than git.
• .env - I do this to be able to include config.php in version control.

On my todo is to try: https://github.com/uiii/processwire to also handle PW core as a composer dependency. 

 

[cwsoft]

Similar here. I init my PW Git repos inside the site folder and to exclude some stuff via .gitignore. 

[da²]

I add to Git site and wire. On wire I have some Git patches that I may apply again after updating to a new version, and each wire version may solve or add bugs, so I add it to version control.

So .gitignore files exclude vendor directory and :

Quote

site/assets/cache/**/
site/assets/cache/*.maint
site/assets/sessions/sess_*
site/assets/logs/*.txt
site/templates/css/*.css
site/templates/css/*.map

I need some files in assets, so I exclude everything that is not needed and keep the rest.

I also add the database.sql to Git, a clean version ready to be deployed on a new site. Everytime I do changes in admin I export the DB.

[AndZyk]

I add Git in the root folder and can recommend GitKraken as app. 😀

I have a develop and a master branch and an upstream remote. Our remote repositories are hosted on Bitbucket.

This is my current .gitignore file:

Spoiler

# OS
.DS_Store

# Visual Studio Code
/.vscode/
/*.code-workspace

# CodeKit
/config.codekit3
/.sass-cache

# Node
node_modules/

# Apache
/.htaccess

# Composer
/composer.lock
/vendor/

# ProcessWire
/site/config.php
/site/config-dev.php
/site/assets/

# SEO
/robots.txt
/googlec*.html
/BingSiteAuth.xml

Regards, Andreas

Edited 13 hours ago by AndZyk

[benbyf]

@AndZyk do you include /wire/ in your repo then and why?

[wbmnfktr]

I use Git in the project root as well, and only put things in .gitignore I really don't want to have in that repo.

Best case scenario is that I have the full project, besides database dumps, in my repo.

# .gitignore
.ddev/
site/assets/backups/
site/assets/cache/
site/assets/logs/
site/assets/ProCache-*
site/assets/pwpc/
site/assets/sessions/
site/config-dev.php

Database dumps are a thing of its own. Managed projects are backed up quite often, long time projects with not that many updates will be backed up once every 3 months. From un-Managed projects I keep only the latest version I worked on - most of the time the release day or when something was updated.