Working with version control on a Drupal/CMS project

Question

I was wondering how teams that develop sites using Drupal (or any other CMS) integrate version control, subversion, git or similar, into their workflow. You\'d obviously wan

Answer 1

Right now there are a lot of efforts towards creating something that will handle the dev -> production difficulties with drupal in relation to the database. Features, that flaminglogos mentioned is one, but I feel that is more focused on creating stand alone projects, ie ones that would be installed on many sites.

For simple maintaining you dev and prod databases I'd take a look at http://drupal.org/project/deploy and http://drupal.org/project/dbscripts. They support syncing and merging db side drupal config data.

I can't guarantee they are ready for prime time though...