How to create Patches for Drupal Issues

Patching your Drupal website is crucial to ensure the security, stability, compatibility, performance and long term maintenance of your websites. It helps protect your website from security threats, resolve bugs, maintains compatibity with modules and themes, improves performance, and establishes a solid foundation for ongoing maintenance.

Drupal patching to keep your site up-to-date, stable and secure

We have six vital metrix for making our Drupal website successfully

Security
Performance
Accessibility
Patches
SEO
Carbon Emissions

What is Patch ?

A Patch is a file that consist of a list of differences is usually created with the help of the git diff, often a part of Drupal patch creation. In the Drupal community, developers create Drupal patches file as contribution to fix issues or enhances features in a module, theem and Drupal core.

Here, we will show you the Drupal patch steps for making in Drupal, how to apply git patch, and the way of creating a simple Drupal patch file:

There are two ways to create a Patch:

Path Independent.
Path Dependent.

Step 1: Create an Account on drupal.org and install.

Go to the browser and type in Search bar “ drupal.org ”.
Click on create Account.
If you have already an Account then login to your account.
Install Drupal using composer.

Step 2:- Search Issues for making patches

Search Theme and Module in Drupal.
Then open the Theme and Module portal and click on Issues of that particular theme and module.

Step 3: Issues List page.

Then after click “ALL ISSUES” issues will appear in front of you.
Click on one issue which you resolve,

Step 4: Clone Drupal Core Repository

Navigate to your Drupal directory where you want to store your Drupal core folder.
Clone the Drupal core repository using GIT.
Open the terminal or command prompt.
Type the Drupal core directory path
Start the project for solving and creating issue through patch.

Type :-

cd “drupal directory path ( var/www/html/drupal... ).
dev start.
Then .

Step 5: Apply Changes.

Create a new branch.
Replace “issue branch” name with your isssue branch name which you are addressing.

Make the neccessary changes to Drupal core or contributed module/theme which you are working on it.

Step 6: Generate the Patch.

After making the changes, navigate to the Drupal root directory.
Run

This command generate a Patch file containing the difference between your changes and the original database.

Step 7: Review and test.

Open the modified files in your code editor.
Review the changes made by the Patch.
Check for adherence to Drupal coding standards, including code formatting, comments and best practices.
Test the functionality related to the patched issueon your local Drupal sites.
Verify that the patch resolve the issues without new bugs.