We use Drush to update our Drupal installation and plugins.

Updating the core

Drush discharges all files that aren't in a standard Drupal installation, so after an update, use git checkout to restore previous version of our files:

• script/backup.sh
• script/scrub.sql
• script/sql_scrub_dump.sh
• composer.json
• composer.lock
• composer.phar
• humans.txt

After the update of the core, tag the commit with number of the release, and push also the tag

Updating plugins

Do a separate commit for every plugin. Every plugin is in a subfolder of sites/all/modules

Use drush

Enter in the root of the www-test repo and use:

drush up