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It is common knowledge that Drupal 8 contains Views module, thanks to the work from the Views in Drupal Core (VDC) initiative.

Our contribution to the VDC initiative was working on abstracting Views UI's modal pattern into a generic modal API in core.

Recently one of the coolest pieces of this API was committed to core.

You can now load any content in a modal simply by adding a class and an attribute to any link.

Sound cool? Read on to learn more.

Drupal uses a patch based workflow. Changes to core and contrib projects are suggested in the form of patches attached to each project's issue queue. This is nothing new.

But this is not the norm for projects that use git for version control. Normally they use a traditional git branch/fork process - issues are worked on in branches or forks, when ready a pull request is sent, when approved the code is merged.

The git workflow has a number of advantages over the patch workflow, the most notable being there is no need to re-roll patches - you just merge HEAD instead.

So given Drupal uses the patch workflow, this article shares what I've found to be a successful recipe for maximizing the features of git in the patch workflow constraints.

This recipe has several advantages, including ease of creating interdiffs.