The work item Changes tab is where you can see the changes you made in the development environment. As you make changes in the development environment, the source-tracking feature keeps a record of the component files that have been added, deleted, or changed.
After making and testing your changes, pull them from your development environment, so you can see the changes before committing them to the repository for review. For the specific work item, you can select which changes you want to move forward and commit.
- Exclude Metadata from the Changes List
When retrieving changes from your development environment, you likely have files or metadata types that you want to exclude from committing to the source control repository. You can exclude individual files or all files in a specific directory with a .forceignore file. DevOps Center provides you the ability to view information about these ignored files but they don’t show up in the changes list. - Supported Special Characters in Metadata Component Names
When naming metadata components, DevOps Center and its underlying technologies, such as Metadata API and Salesforce CLI, support a subset of special characters. To avoid issues when deploying or promoting metadata to a pipeline stage, we strongly suggest using only supported special characters in your component names. - Pull Changes from the Development Environment
Because the development environment has source tracking enabled, DevOps Center knows what files have been added, changed, or removed. When you pull changes, DevOps Center displays a list of all files that it has identified as changed. These changes aren’t associated with the work item until you select and commit them to the source control repository. - Available Changes List
When you connect a source-tracked development environment to a work item and pull changes, DevOps Center displays a list of all files that it has identified as changed. These changes aren’t associated with the work item until you select and commit them to the source control repository. After a change is committed, it no longer appears in the Available Changes list. - Add Any Metadata Component Manually
A key benefit of DevOps Center is that we track changes for you. However, for those times when you require flexibility to include more metadata than what was pulled automatically, you can select and commit additional metadata source files, not just the ones that DevOps Center determines have changed.