Managing Multiple Drupal Sites with SVN Eric Marden 1 

svn:externals • Create a Vendors repository • Keep Drupal core as well as modules and themes in this repository • Use svn:externals to pull modules into your site’s repository • Use the -r flag in your svn:externals properties to keep modules from being upgraded automatically when they are updated in Vendors This talk is delivered classroom style and illustrated on a white board. The top five talking points are above. 2 

Learn More • Subversion http://subversion.tigris.org/ • SVN Book http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ • svn:externals http://tinyurl.com/svnexternals • Google: http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=svn:externals 3 

Subversion Clients • svn command line • TortoiseSVN http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ • SmartSVN http://www.syntevo.com/smartsvn/ • Versions http://versionsapp.com/ 4 

Thank you Eric Marden xentek.net twitter.com/xentek 5