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Managing multiple drupal installations can be a pain. You have to track changes to drupal-core and all the individual modules that you use, as well as managing your own custom modules and your own custom changes to drupal-core. And if if you’re doing this with several different drupal installations it can get inconvenient quickly.

A lot of this hassle can be reduced by installing drupal from cvs rather than installing one of the releases, and by keeping your installation under version control (in this article I use git but you could use any VCS such as mercurial, svn etc).

Here I describe how I manage my drupal installations using the drupal cvs repository and git.

I’ve been using Subversion for version control for the last couple of years. It’s a lot nicer than cvs and I was quite happy with it. Then last week Olivier pointed me towards a presentation by Linus Torvalds about Git. The talk got me interested in trying out Git and I started playing around with it.