On May 29, 2006, at 10:26 PM, blogdiva@culturekitchen.com wrote:
Which is why upgrading is costly. When you've tweaked things in 20, 30, 50 heres and theres, writing over them for the next decimal upgrade becomes prohibitive. It's time and money gone completely out of the window.
you should read http://drupal.org/node/5123 yes, if you're not "a developer" you might not know much about CVS yet. but using a revision control system to keep track of your changes is a wonderfully powerful solution to this problem once you get used to it. this page details exactly what you need to know to let another piece of software take care of all your tweaks, and apply them to the latest version of drupal that comes out. it doesn't do *all* of the work for you, but chances are good it will save you a lot of time. if you're so interested in the history of things like the drupal source, you should definitely keep track of the history of your own modifications to that source, too. enjoy, -derek (dww)