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Yesterday I wrote about how I used a patch file to customise a project in my Nix configuration<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

I'm familiar with patch files from my Drupal contributions, when we used to create and upload patch files and attach them to issues to contribute changes.<\/p>\n\n

Although patches aren't used to contribute to Drupal any more, you can still apply patches to Drupal code in your own projects if you need to.<\/p>\n\n

If there's a customisation or fix you need you need to apply, instead of altering and \"hacking\" the source files, you can apply changes with patch files.<\/p>\n\n

Instead of Nix, I use composer-patches<\/a> to automatically apply patches when running composer install<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n

For example, in my composer.json file, I can add something like this:<\/p>\n\n

\"extra\": {\n    \"patches\": {\n        \"drupal\/default_content\": {\n            \"Issue #2698425: Do not reimport existing entities (https:\/\/www.drupal.org\/project\/default_content\/issues\/2698425#comment-15593214)\":  \"patches\/default_content-2698425-do-not-reimport-196.patch\",\n            \"Issue #3160146: Add a Normalizer and Denormalizer to support Layout Builder (https:\/\/www.drupal.org\/project\/default_content\/issues\/3160146#comment-14814050)\": \"patches\/default_content-3160146-53.patch\"\n        }\n    },\n},\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n

This will apply these two patch files to the Default Content module (which are the same as running git diff<\/code> between two commits), which I needed to do for a recent project.<\/p>\n\n

If the upstream issue is fixed and the patch is no longer needed, they can be removed and the module can be updated to the latest version.<\/p>\n\n

And this works for core and contrib projects.<\/p>\n\n

The same as the tmux-sessionizer example, this approach means I can apply any changes without needing to duplicate or alter the code, and it makes it easy to contribute by testing other people's patches or applying and contributing your own.<\/p>\n\n ", "format": "full_html", "processed": "\n

Yesterday I wrote about how I used a patch file to customise a project in my Nix configuration<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

I'm familiar with patch files from my Drupal contributions, when we used to create and upload patch files and attach them to issues to contribute changes.<\/p>\n\n

Although patches aren't used to contribute to Drupal any more, you can still apply patches to Drupal code in your own projects if you need to.<\/p>\n\n

If there's a customisation or fix you need you need to apply, instead of altering and \"hacking\" the source files, you can apply changes with patch files.<\/p>\n\n

Instead of Nix, I use composer-patches<\/a> to automatically apply patches when running composer install<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n

For example, in my composer.json file, I can add something like this:<\/p>\n\n

\"extra\": {\n    \"patches\": {\n        \"drupal\/default_content\": {\n            \"Issue #2698425: Do not reimport existing entities (https:\/\/www.drupal.org\/project\/default_content\/issues\/2698425#comment-15593214)\":  \"patches\/default_content-2698425-do-not-reimport-196.patch\",\n            \"Issue #3160146: Add a Normalizer and Denormalizer to support Layout Builder (https:\/\/www.drupal.org\/project\/default_content\/issues\/3160146#comment-14814050)\": \"patches\/default_content-3160146-53.patch\"\n        }\n    },\n},\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n

This will apply these two patch files to the Default Content module (which are the same as running git diff<\/code> between two commits), which I needed to do for a recent project.<\/p>\n\n

If the upstream issue is fixed and the patch is no longer needed, they can be removed and the module can be updated to the latest version.<\/p>\n\n

And this works for core and contrib projects.<\/p>\n\n

The same as the tmux-sessionizer example, this approach means I can apply any changes without needing to duplicate or alter the code, and it makes it easy to contribute by testing other people's patches or applying and contributing your own.<\/p>\n\n ", "summary": null } ] }