make

Turns a makefile into a working Drupal codebase.

drush make

Arguments:

makefile : Filename of the makefile to use for this build.
build path : The path at which to build the makefile.

Options:

--version : Print the make API version and exit.
--contrib-destination : Specify a path under which modules and themes should be placed. Defaults to sites/all for Drupal 6,7 and the corresponding directory in the Drupal root for Drupal 8 and above.
--force-complete : Force a complete build even if errors occur.
--ignore-checksums : Ignore md5 checksums for downloads.
--make-update-default-url : The default location to load the XML update information from.
--no-build : Do not build a codebase. Makes the `build path` argument optional.
--no-cache : Do not use the pm-download caching (defaults to cache enabled).
--no-clean : Leave temporary build directories in place instead of cleaning up after completion.
--no-core : Do not require a Drupal core project to be specified.
--no-recursion : Do not recurse into the makefiles of any downloaded projects; you can also set [do_recursion] = 0 on a per-project basis in the makefile.
--no-patch-txt : Do not write a PATCHES.txt file in the directory of each patched project.
--no-gitinfofile : Do not modify .info files when cloning from Git.
--force-gitinfofile : Force a modification of .info files when cloning from Git even if repository isn't hosted on Drupal.org.
--no-gitprojectinfo : Do not inject project info into .info files when cloning from Git.
--overwrite : Overwrite existing directories. Default is to merge.
--prepare-install : Prepare the built site for installation. Generate a properly permissioned settings.php and files directory.
--tar : Generate a tar archive of the build. The output filename will be [build path].tar.gz.
--test : Run a temporary test build and clean up.
--translations : Retrieve translations for the specified comma-separated list of language(s) if available for all projects.
--working-copy : Preserves VCS directories, like .git, for projects downloaded using such methods.
--download-mechanism : How to download files. Should be autodetected, but this is an override if it doesn't work. Options are "curl" and "make" (a native download method).
--includes : A list of makefiles to include at build-time.
--overrides : A list of makefiles to that can override values in other makefiles.
--source : The base URL which provides project release history in XML. Defaults to http://updates.drupal.org/release-history.
--dev : Work with development releases solely.

Examples:

Build the example.make makefile in the example directory.

drush make example.make example

Build an installation profile within an existing Drupal site

drush make --no-core --contrib-destination=. installprofile.make

Build the remote example.make makefile in the example directory.

drush make http://example.com/example.make example

Write a new makefile to example.lock. All project versions will be resolved.

drush make example.make --no-build --lock=example.lock