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In SFDX, script to identify all changes made on this branch, to generate package.xml and destructiveChanges.xml

Introduction

Make changes on feature branches, then merge them into a sandbox branch. This script identifies all changes made on this sandbox branch since it was created, and generates the package.xml (and destructiveChanges.xml) to push changes to the sandbox. If you are doing CI (Continuous Integration), it will let you find changes since the previous commit.

Flow

In feature branch, VS Code feature workspace, and scratch org :

make changes on a feature branch in scratch orgs

Converting an existing Salesforce production org to SFDX and Github

0. Prerequisites

SFDX

You need SFDX installed locally on your computer :
https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.sfdx_setup.meta/sfdx_setup/sfdx_setup_install_cli.htm
You need an SFDX dev hub :
- https://altius.my.salesforce.com for DCE projects
the customer's production org with Dev Hub enabled :

	name: apex pretify
	on:
	push:
	paths:
	- 'myns/main/core/classes/**'
	- 'myns/main/default/classes/**'
	- 'myns/main/services/classes/**'
	- 'myns/main/services/classes/tests/**'
	- 'myns/tests/classes/**'
	jobs:

	// see https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/165551/possible-to-update-namedcredential-from-apex

	MetadataService.NamedCredential credential = new MetadataService.NamedCredential();
	credential.fullName = 'Demo_Credential';
	credential.label = 'Demo Credential';
	credential.endpoint = 'https://www.DEMO2.com';
	credential.principalType = 'NamedUser';
	credential.protocol = 'NoAuthentication';

	system.debug(createMetadata(credential));

	const arr1 = [1,2,3]
	const arr2 = [4,5,6]
	const arr3 = [...arr1, ...arr2] //arr3 ==> [1,2,3,4,5,6]

	license: gpl-3.0
	height: 600