So this isn't a Magento-specific question only but I'm currently working with Magento myself and so I figured I'd see what the community is doing about this issue.
Here's a typical scenario for me:
- I start working on some feature, that's a bit of code + some admin configuration.
- I make changes in the admin panel as and where required
- I then proceed to refresh the frontend
- Et voila, everything has gone for a toss because I'm not sure which config / code change of mine screwed up the JS/CSS and no amount of static-content:deploy can save me
This happened yesterday where I, like a total retard, went and changed the language in locale while I was changing the weight units. My ShipStation setup I've decided to go with weight in grams and my store was in pounds so I wanted to sync them up together so I went to locale and changed weight.
While at it, I figured, eh, my language country is en_CA and not en_US, so I should change that too.
And so I changed the language.
And then I spent the next few hours trying to figure out why my website refuses to show up until I noticed all "Inspect element" requests were going to en_CA/styles.css instead of en_US/styles.css, which is when I remembered that I'd changed the locale.
My question is:
- How do you:
a) Prevent yourself from making stupid choices without understanding their consequences?
b) Keep track of changes you made in the last 1-hour so you can backtrack? - This could be code, config, anything pretty much)
Thanks!
Disclaimer: X-posted from reddit r/Magento.
