E Exporting APEX should be done often if you are APEX developer. The more often you do it, the better position you will have. I export APEX every morning to see what other team mates changes (and forgot to commit). I also export it after each change. I modify the page, I export it. With this approach you need to export it fast. This is part of multiple ADT articles: Introduction & workflow Setup connections, config, folder structure Recompile invalid objects Searching APEX and searching repo for objects Export APEX & live upload (this article) Export database objects and data Patching & deployment Export APEX The full export is not always suitable. At least exporting just full export is something not version control friendly. And exporting just the pages is also not a great idea. That is usually done manually by teams who put everything on page, which goes against the Blueprint . You should not have logic (and queries) hardcoded on page
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