Join us to learn how the Force.com Migration Tool is a powerful instrument for deploying code and configuring salesfoce.com. The Ant-based tool offers the ability to take a snapshot of your code and configuration, which you can then store in any source code management system such as Git. These snapshots can be used to restore, in part or in whole, your org to a previous state. In addition to recovery, if we stack these snapshots we can use them for forensic purposes to find when a Salesforce environment changed.

1. The Force.com Migration tool, GIT
and You
ANT and GIT: an offensive and defensive strategy for
Source Control Management
Kyle Bowerman, Appirio/Cloudspokes, Technical Architect
@kylebowerman

2. Kyle Bowerman
Appirio / Cloudspokes TA
@kylebowerman

3. Just four commands can change you life!
ant
git
git
git
fetchmyorg
add .
commit –a –m ’auto commit’
push origin

4. Topics we will cover today
▪ANT (Force.com migration tool)
▪GIT
• Basic deploy
• Basic Fetch
• Git Concepts
• Bug fix example
▪ Defensive SCM strategy
• Monitor changes daily
• Forensics tool
▪ Offensive SCM strategy
• Release packages
• Directory structures
• Cloud repositories and Tools

5. Ant for retrieve,
still just three files (defensive)
build.properties = login, password and serverurl
build.xml = what to do
Unpackge-all.xml = what to get (supports * wildcards)
Ant fetchdev3

6. Ant for deployment,
same three files (offensive)
build.properties = login, password and serverurl
package.xml = the manifest (what to deploy)
build.xml = the instructions of what to do <target>

7. What is GIT and why use it
▪ 3rd Generation
▪ Ubiquitous standard
▪ Highly distributed and easy
▪ Easy to branch, merge and audit
▪ Cloud repos offer additional services like issue tracking and wiki
git clone https://github.com/forcedotcom/aura.git

8. Git concepts and commands
clone
remote
branch
fetch
pull
push
checkout
merge
add
commit
log
tag
pull:
brings down
push:
latest src
repo
fetch:
brings down
latest src
from repo to
HEAD
puts latest
and merges
commit into
it into current
repo
branch
branch:
Local
copies the master branch
clone: gets the code from
the remote, do once

9. Daily snapshots: defensive example
ant
git
git
git
fetchmyorg
add .
commit –a –m ’auto commit’
push origin

10. Classic bug fix: offensive example
git clone http://github/user/reponame
git checkout –b issue49
change code and test
git commit –a –m ‘fixed issue #49’
git checkout master
git merge issue49
git push origin

11. What you git

12. What you git
detail of a commit
• link to issue (github)
• commit message
• author and date
• summary of change
• diff of each change
• detail of each file

13. Two options for directory structures for salesforce.
com orgs
Use 1 branch per org
▪ SRC
Use a sub dir per org
▪ Orgs
▪ packages
• Prod/SRC
▪ docs
• Dev/SRC
▪ data
▪ scripts
▪ readme.md
▪ build.xml
▪ unpackage-all.xml
• Testing/SRC
▪ docs
▪ packages
▪ data
▪ readme.md
▪ build.xml

14. Options for version numbering your release
Major.Minor.release#
Project.Feature.Sprint#.Hotfix#
Project.ApiVersion.model.release#
1.2.31
1.0.6.1
2.29.14.27
You can use any versioning schema you want or create you own.
The important thing is that everyone understands what each digit
means, and you have a release note for each release.

15. Git Cloud Repositories
▪ Github
• No free repos
• Industry standard for open source
• Wiki and Issue tracker
• Smart Commits
▪ Bitbucket
• Unlimited private repos (but only 5 users)
• From Atlassian
• Side by side diffs

16. Git GUIs:

17. All About Appirio and Cloudspokes
Appirio is a global service company that uses traditional
consulting, crowd sourcing and cloud, social and mobile
technology to help enterprises dramatically improve the way
they do business.
Cloudspokes is Appirio’s crowd sourcing business unit.
With it’s recent acquisition of TopCoder.com, it provides a
resource of nearly 600k developers world wide to provide
customer solutions

18. Kyle Bowerman
Technical Architect
@kylebowerman

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