README

Why this package: vardot/drupal-core-patches is required by vardot/varbase-patches so that Varbase can upgrade to the latest Drupal core versions. It maintains the right set of working Drupal core patches per Drupal core version (one branch per major.minor), so each Varbase line automatically gets the patches that apply to its Drupal core.

Curated Drupal core patches used by Varbase, delivered as a Composer metapackage with one git branch per Drupal core MAJOR.MINOR version (e.g. 11.3.x, 10.6.x). Consumed by vardot/varbase-patches so that core patches are versioned and resolved independently of the Varbase line.

• Patches are declared under extra.patches."drupal/core" and applied by cweagans/composer-patches via the Varbase Patches plugin (which allowlists this package).
• Each core-minor branch carries only the patches valid for that exact Drupal core minor and uses conflict: { "drupal/core": "<minor.0 || >=next.0" } to bind itself to that minor, so Composer always selects the release matching the installed core.
• The actual .patch files live on the patches branch and are referenced by raw URL (the same model varbase-patches uses for its patch files).

Usage

composer require vardot/drupal-core-patches:~11.3.0

varbase-patches does this for you. To allow Composer to pick the release matching the site's core, it requires a range that spans the supported majors:

Branch per Drupal core major.minor

Add a new branch (e.g. 11.4.x) when supporting a new Drupal core minor — see docs/adding-a-core-version.md.

Documentation

• Architecture
• Usage & installation
• Adding a Drupal core version
• Releasing
• Troubleshooting