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                                                                Google Code In                                 Git Basics   Git is a tool which helps you to manage your changes to the code and also helps to track changes made in a file, thus, it is used to made a patch which involves the difference between changes in the two files.   Installing Git : 1. For windows download the latest version from the following link . and then run the installer. To confirm, whether git has been installed or not type git by opening the command prompt. If there are no errors, you are good to go! 2. For Mac, use Macports and type the following command : $ sudo port install...
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                                       Google Code In  Date: 16th Dec 2017 Getting Started with Drupal for GCI Students Intro to Drupal : Drupal is one of the best Content Management System which allows you to make different web pages and apps with the help of thousand of themes and modules available. Drupal is an open source community in which people from various countries are contributing every minute to make it more and more better. Drupal's core is written in PHP and it follows many principle such as coding standards,modularity, etc. A beginner can too contribute to Drupal (adding a keyword to an page is also a quiet good way of starting in contribution to Drupal). There are lot of people who are available at some point of time to help you with using Drupal. You can also chat on ...
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                   Getting Started in the Issue Queue We are here going to know how to report the issues in the Issue Queue and for that we should know how to report an issue, confirm a bug report.  So, here we are going to post a sample issue , and it can be done in following manners - 1. Firstly, go to the Drupal 8 Sandbox issue (The issue is a sample issue which is used to make beginners understand issue queue.)   2. Then ,Under Component, select Miscellaneous and under Category select Bug Report.  3. Now , Copy the following text and paste it into the title Box.   Rewrite description for URL alias on node/add/* 4. Then , Copy the following and paste into the Description Box :  Note: This issue is being posted here as an exercise by a participant in the http://drupalladder.org ladder for contributing to core. Please don't do anyth...
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        TESTING PATCHES - DRUPAL LADDER   A patch is a structured file that consist of differences between the one site of files and another. So, we are here going to test a patch for an issue queu. Prerequisites:  1. A sandbox version of Drupal is required for testing the patch for the issue whose git repository can be set up locally by following the instructions on the site 2. Git installed 3. Basic Git knowledge      Steps Required for Testing Patches: 1. Firstly, Go to the issue page and just read about the issue.   2. As per the instructions given in the Drupal Ladder, download the patch in comment 2 from  here and save it in your local sandbox directory. 3. Go to your sandbox site first and give a look to the issue.   4. Now, on terminal move to your Drupal8 Sandbox Root Directory and save the patch in the same directory. Command for moving to you...
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SIMPLYTEST.ME Simplytest.me is a free tool which offers a temproary sandbox environment to test any Drupal distribution, theme or module without setting up Drupal system installation locally. SETTING UP SIMPLYTEST.ME     1. Go to https://simplytest.me/ and enter the project name you want to install and then enter the version too if it appears against the project name. (As, in my case I am installing Drupal Core and will be using latest version 8.4.2) 2.Then click on Advanced options to add themes and modules and then hit Launch Sandbox. 3.After it, the environment will be set up and for installation follow the instructions and just click Save and Continue for each step as the sandbox environment is temporary which will be destroyed after some time and you will see that the site has been setup after a couple of minutes!! USE OF SIMPLYTEST.ME   1. Easy to Use - Setting up environment for Simplytest.me is pretty simple which does...
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