Backend and Infrastructure

Applying and Creating Patches with Git

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We're keeping this page up as a courtesy to folks who may need to refer to old instructions. We don't plan to update this page.

Alternate resources

Drupal now uses Merge Requests.

Sprout Video

Overview

This tutorial takes a look at applying a patch from Drupal.org to your local copy of a module or Drupal core using Git. Afterwards we'll look at how you can create your own patches, using git diff and git format-patch, in order to contribute code back to Drupal or any of the module's on Drupal.org. You can see a full Git workflow using GitHub in the lesson Git Workflow: Putting It All Together.

Additional resources

Command Line Tools for Drupal