Drupal 8 Configuration Management

Tracking configuration changes

Drupal 8's new Configuration Management system can be used without a version control system, but if you want to really improve your process, you should use it in combination with version control. Having organized and versioned code helps prevent mistakes and duplicated efforts between multiple developers; it serves as documentation of the project's history and can show who worked on what and, very importantly, why.

There are others, but we are going to talk about Git as our example version control tool because it's used by the Drupal community and offers everything we need in terms of functionality, scalability, and ease-of-use.

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Use a version control tool such as Git to get the best out of the Configuration Management ...