How do we Audit our file changes ?

[turner2f]

For those of us that have made CSS, text or code modifications to our files...

How do we Audit our file changes ?

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Usually I would use DreamWeaver CS3 to search for all my changes, but DreamWeaver CS3 does not detect PDT files.

I would like to adit my changes so that the changed files are not overwritten or the code gets lost when updating to a new version of Blesta.

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1) - Do you know how to make the code search function in  DreamWeaver CS3 recognize PDT files ?

2) - During an update will we be notified of the different files that were affected within the update so we can copy and paste our modifications into the new files ?

3) - Is there a 3rd party program that will help us audit our modified files by showing us a list of their new timestamps ?

 

 

[evolvewh]

You can use Github or Diff Merge (if you're using a Mac).

 

If there are a smaller amount of changes, you can keep track of them in a document by documenting the files and line # changes.

 

I'm sure there are other tools out there but these are the methods we use.

 

Blesta will not detail the specific changes within files for you. If it's a patch release, the patch will only contain the modified files and not the entire set of Blesta files.

[turner2f]

Nevermind.

I figured it out.

I created a "Contribute" post on how to Modify DreamWeaver to recognize PDT file extensions, hence the ability to audit all our file changes via it's file search.

This is better than using "Diff Merge" or "GitHub" since you have to compare each file piece-by-piece.

Whereas DreamWeaver does a Global site-wide search of every single file change in mere seconds, with the single push of a button

You can learn more by clicking on my "Contribute" post below...

Enjoy ! 

[activa]

Im using the plugin js/css tools box , with that plugin and did't care about upgrades or files changes . All of my extra css are handled by this magic plugin .

[turner2f]

Great.

The ability to audit is very handy for the many other kinds of code modifications aside from just CSS.

[Michael]

Dreamweaver is so awful, really is the worst software in the world. I make a list of every file I've edited:

rm -rf ./plugins/support_manager/pipe.php
rm -rf ./plugins/support_manager/views/default/client_tickets_add.pdt
rm -rf ./plugins/support_manager/views/default/client_tickets_reply.pdt
rm -rf ./plugins/support_manager/views/default/client_tickets_departments.pdt
rm -rf ./app/views/client/bootstrap/structure.pdt
rm -rf ./app/views/client/bootstrap/client_login.pdt
rm -rf ./app/views/client/bootstrap/config.json
rm -rf ./config/routes.php
rm -rf ./components/modules/thesslstore/thesslstore.php
rm -rf ./plugins/order/views/templates/wizard/config.pdt
rm -rf ./plugins/order/views/templates/wizard/checkout.pdt
rm -rf ./app/views/client/bootstrap/client_services_manage.pdt