Dreamforce14 Metadata Management with Git Version Control
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The document discusses managing changes in a Salesforce organization using Git, emphasizing the benefits of a distributed version control system, such as eliminating the need for centralized control and enabling easier merging of changes. It provides a guide on how to set up Git and GitHub for tracking modifications, including the creation of repositories and connecting to Salesforce using the force CLI. Additionally, the document touches upon keeping records of changes, managing metadata, and utilizing tools like MavensMate and Sublime Text for development.
Dreamforce14 Metadata Management with Git Version Control
- 1. Managing changes in your Salesforce Org with Git agileforce.co.uk John Stevenson @jr0cket
- 2. Safe Harbor Safe harbor statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This presentation may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. If any such uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions proves incorrect, the results of salesforce.com, inc. could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements we make. All statements other than statements of historical fact could be deemed forward-looking, including any projections of subscriber growth, earnings, revenues, or other financial items and any statements regarding strategies or plans of management for future operations, statements of belief, any statements concerning new, planned, or upgraded services or technology developments and customer contracts or use of our services. The risks and uncertainties referred to above include – but are not limited to – risks associated with developing and delivering new functionality for our service, our new business model, our past operating losses, possible fluctuations in our operating results and rate of growth, interruptions or delays in our Web hosting, breach of our security measures, risks associated with possible mergers and acquisitions, the immature market in which we operate, our relatively limited operating history, our ability to expand, retain, and motivate our employees and manage our growth, new releases of our service and successful customer deployment, our limited history reselling non-salesforce.com products, and utilization and selling to larger enterprise customers. Further information on potential factors that could affect the financial results of salesforce.com, inc. is included in our annual report on Form 10-K for the most recent fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2011. This document and others are available on the SEC Filings section of the Investor Information section of our Web site. Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase our services should make the purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com, inc. assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.
- 3. Why manager changes in your Salesforce Org? agileforce.co.uk John Stevenson @jr0cket
- 4. Keeping a record of change Understand: •what has been built •when something has been added or changed •who added that feature / bug
- 5. So, what is Git ? agileforce.co.uk John Stevenson @jr0cket
- 6. Say goodbye to Centralised version control No more merge days (weeks) No longer tied to the network No more waiting for the server to respond
- 7. So what is Git A distributed version control system Based on “change sets”, rather than files Easy to merge changes between branches & repositories Working Copy Staging Local Repository Github Repository
- 8. How do you use Git Github Repository
- 9. Getting Started with Git Git client - windows.github.com - mac.github.com - git-scm.com Identify yourself to Git git config --global user.name=“John Stevenson” git config --global user.email=“[email protected]”
- 10. Github for Mac / Windows – Simple start point
- 14. So, what is Github ? agileforce.co.uk John Stevenson @jr0cket
- 15. “Social Coding” with Github Create repositories on Github and share your code with the world Features: Forking – create your own copy of a repository on Github Pull Requests – ask that your change be reviewed and added to someone else’s repository
- 16. Getting Started with Github Github account from github.com Optionally: - Add a Public key to your account - Add 2-factor authentication to your account
- 18. Lets use Git & Github to manage our Salesforce Org agileforce.co.uk John Stevenson @jr0cket
- 19. Create a repository on Github
- 20. Screenshots from blog post
- 21. 1. Add repository 1. Select “Clone” 1. Type name of repository to clone 1. Clone repository to your computer
- 23. Show me the Metadata agileforce.co.uk John Stevenson @jr0cket
- 24. Force.com IDE - Apex - Visualforce pages - Unit Tests - Git developer.salesforce.com/page/Force.com_IDE
- 25. MavensMate.com Sublime Text plugin for Force.com - Apex - Visualforce - Unit Tests - Git - Lightweight - Templates
- 26. Force.com Command Line Interface (CLI) force-cli.heroku.com
- 27. Packaging up the Gardening App agileforce.co.uk John Stevenson @jr0cket
- 28. The Gardening App I created a Salesforce App called Gardening
- 29. Create a new package I just want to version my Gardening App
- 30. Creating an unmanaged package
- 31. The Gardening App to the package
- 32. The Gardening App is now packaged
- 33. Using Force CLI to get your Metadata agileforce.co.uk John Stevenson @jr0cket
- 34. So what is Git force-cli.herokuapp.com
- 35. Connect Force CLI to your Salesforce Org Using OAuth secure connection force login
- 36. Connect Force CLI to your Salesforce Org From the directory created by the Github client force fetch package DreamforceHack --unpack
- 37. Versioning your Metadata agileforce.co.uk John Stevenson @jr0cket
- 38. Github Client picks up changes automatically
- 39. Github Client picks up changes automatically
- 40. Github Client picks up changes automatically
- 41. Github Client picks up changes automatically
- 42. Github Client picks up changes automatically
- 43. Where to go next… agileforce.co.uk John Stevenson @jr0cket
- 44. Resources 5pm Tuesday Using Force.com CLI to quickly build, control and automate Salesforce apps Git Cheetsheet developer.salesforce.com/page/Cheat_Sheets agileforce.co.uk
- 45. Thank you developer.salesforce.com agileforce.co.uk John Stevenson @jr0cket
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- #25: 12:30 – Let’s see this in action. FORCE CLI is here: https://force-cli.heroku.com/ More info: http://www.wadewegner.com/2013/11/a-command-line-interface-for-forcecom/ Recommended demo path: login, show off some Query statements and then create a simple custom object and field (ie force sobject create Random_Object Description:text) Highlight that: As a platform, we expose our functionality in lots of ways. We think in terms of REST and SOAP, but we also extend things like our metadata API and Tooling API for utilities like this one. This is a command line utility which can be looped into other things like build and continous intergration tools.
- #26: 12:30 – Let’s see this in action. FORCE CLI is here: https://force-cli.heroku.com/ More info: http://www.wadewegner.com/2013/11/a-command-line-interface-for-forcecom/ Recommended demo path: login, show off some Query statements and then create a simple custom object and field (ie force sobject create Random_Object Description:text) Highlight that: As a platform, we expose our functionality in lots of ways. We think in terms of REST and SOAP, but we also extend things like our metadata API and Tooling API for utilities like this one. This is a command line utility which can be looped into other things like build and continous intergration tools.
- #27: 12:30 – Let’s see this in action. FORCE CLI is here: https://force-cli.heroku.com/ More info: http://www.wadewegner.com/2013/11/a-command-line-interface-for-forcecom/ Recommended demo path: login, show off some Query statements and then create a simple custom object and field (ie force sobject create Random_Object Description:text) Highlight that: As a platform, we expose our functionality in lots of ways. We think in terms of REST and SOAP, but we also extend things like our metadata API and Tooling API for utilities like this one. This is a command line utility which can be looped into other things like build and continous intergration tools.
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