XF 2.3 Downgrade addon's build?

[asprin]

I ran the build release command on my addon and once the zip file was created (let's say it's v2) I bumped up the version (so now it's v3).

Then I made some changes to some files (controllers, routes, templates etc). But now I realize I want to undo all those changes.

So is there a way to have the source code go back to the v2 version after which I can bump it again and start making fresh changes?

 

[Chris D]

That's what version control is for (e.g. GitHub). XenForo itself does not provide a version control system.

 

[asprin]

Lesson learnt.

 

[Xon]

That said, once you do revert back to an old version via source control there are commands to run to force XF's internal state back to the old version.

A bash script living in /usr/local/bin/xf-addon-switch-branch with content similar to:

#!/bin/bash

if [[ "$#" -ne 1 ]]; then
    echo "Require an add-on name"
    exit 1;
fi

if [[ ! -d "src/addons/$1" ]]; then
    echo "Expect src/addons/$1  to exist"
    exit 1;
fi

php cmd.php xf-addon:sync-json "$1" -v -f || exit 1
php cmd.php xf-dev:import --addon="$1" -v || exit 1
php cmd.php xf-dev:metadata-clean -v || exit 1
php cmd.php xf-dev:rebuild-caches -v || exit 1

You can obviously run those by hand, but it is a bit annoying.

I use this sort of script all the time when switching between version branches during development