Apply hotfix by manually moving files
In this article, you'll find a step-by-step guide on how to apply a hotfix to a Live environment by manually moving the changed, updated, and/or new files from one local clone to another.
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In this article, you'll find a step-by-step guide on how to apply a hotfix to a Live environment by manually moving the changed, updated, and/or new files from one local clone to another.
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A Git GUI
In this tutorial GitKraken has been used, however, you can use any Git GUI you prefer.
You have an Umbraco Cloud project with two environments, Development and Live.
You have been working on building the site on a local clone of the Development environment, and now you want to send some but not all changes to the Live environment.
Three commits have been pushed from your local clone to the Development environment. Out of these three commits, you only need the changes from one of the commits in the Live environment.
Here are the steps to follow to apply selected changes to the Live environment without deploying from Development to Live.
For the sake of simplicity here's an explanation of the names I'll be using in this guide:
The cloned Development environment: Development repository
The cloned Live environment: Live repository
Clone down the Live environment.
The clone URL for the Live environment can be found in the Umbraco Cloud Portal:
Locate the files from the Development repository that you want to move to Live.
Check the commits in the Git history for the Development repository to verify which files you need.
The new files can be moved from the Development repository to the Live repository.
The same goes for changed files. You can also edit the files, and only move the code snippets you need on the Live environment.
Copy and paste the new and/or updated files from your Development repository to your Live repository.
You can now Stage and Commit these changes to the Live repository in Git.
One of the benefits of having the Live environment cloned down, is that you can test the new changes locally before sending them to the Live environment.
Run the Live repository through IIS
Go to the backoffice of your project
Navigate to the settings section
Go to the Deploy Dashboard in the Settings section
Run the Deploy operation Update Umbraco Schema From Data Files
The changes will now be reflected in the backoffice of your local Live environment.
Once you've checked that everything works locally, you are ready to push to the Live environment.
Push the committed changes to the Live environment using Git.
When changes are pushed directly to a Live environment and you have more than one environment, the changes are not automatically extracted to the site.
2. Run the Deploy operation Update Umbraco Schema From Data Filesfrom the Deploy Dashboard
You have now applied a hotfix to the Live environment.
When you are done with development on your Development environment, follow the normal workflow of Deploying the changes between Cloud environments. The hotfix which now exists in both environments should automatically be merged upon deployment.
Once you've applied the hotfix, we recommend that you delete the local clone of the Live environment. If you need to apply another hotfix at some point, clone the environment down again.
Make sure that the changes you push directly to your Live environment are also pushed to the Development environment. This will ensure that your environments are kept in sync.
This guide can also be used for applying a hotfix to a Staging environment.
