Upgrading complex Magento 2 projects can be time-consuming, especially when you have many customisations and complexities that need taking into account.
Internally at Ampersand, we have been working on a tool to help us identify common overrides or preferences which are affected by upgrades. This improves the speed and quality with which upgrades are delivered to our clients.
This tool looks for files which have been modified as part of the upgrade and attempts to see if you have any overrides in your site. This allows you to focus on the things that have changed and are specific to your site.
The tool specifically checks for:
Preferences (in global/frontend/adminhtml di.xml)
Overrides
phtml / js
layout xml
html (knockout templates)
As with Magento, the tool has been open sourced so that other developers can report bugs or contribute features. At the moment, the tool is experimental and a work in progress so it may not catch every preference/override/etc. but the hope is that it will make project delivery more efficient.
You can take a look and download the Magento 2 Upgrade Patch Helper.
We plan on using this tool for the foreseeable future and we hope that others will benefit from it too!
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