Features to Git

Features to Git allows trusted users to write features directly to disk, commit
them to git and push them to a remote. This makes it possible for site
builders to be able to manage features in git without having to get their hands
dirty on the command line.

WARNING

Only grant access to this module to trusted users. Any changes they make will
be written to disk and committed to git immediately. This module requires
relaxed filesystem permissions that allows the web server the ability to
write files to disk.

Getting Started

To set this module you must do the following things:

1. Download and enable the module
   • drush dl features_git
   • drush en features_git
2. Grant users access
   • visit admin/people/permissions
   • grant "the Export a feature to git" permission to the appropriate role/s
3. Make ssh-echopass executable
   • chmod +x /path/to/drupal/sites/all/modules/contrib/features_git/ssh-echpass
4. Make your tree writable by Apache (this has security implications)
   • cd /path/to/drupal
   • find -type f -exec chmod 660 {} \;
   • find -type d -exec chmod 2770 {} \;
   • chown -R :www-data . # (change www-data to the group Apache/nginx runs as)
5. Add your SSH private keys for each user to ~www-data/.ssh (assuming apache runs as www-data)
6. Add SSH alias for each user to ~www-data/.ssh/config, like so:
   

   Host git-USERNAME
   Hostname git.example.com
   User git
   IdentityFile /var/www/.ssh/key-USERNAME
   

7. Add per user git remotes
   git remote add origin-USERNAME git@git-USERNAME:project.git

If you do not understand some of the steps above, you really shouldn't be
running this module. If you don't understand the implications of the
security warning above, you really shouldn't be running this module.
Support requests for users struggling with either of the above items
will be closed with a "by design" note - this is for your own protection.

Limitations

features_git has only been tested on Linux and I have no interest in making it
work on Windows servers. It should work on OS X, but I don't have a Mac to test on.

The error handling isn't as nice as I would like, but some of that is
because of limitations of FAPI and/or my knowledge of FAPI or both.

Acknowledgement

Development of this module was sponsored by Technocrat.