In real time we develop some business requirements in salesforce using configuration, then we need to push these change to Version control such as GitLab/Bit bucket. So we will come to know in how many way we can retrieve these changes from salesforce: source:retrieve Command Syntax: sfdx force:source:retrieve Parameters: [-x MANIFEST] [-p SOURCEPATH] [-m METADATA] [-n PACKAGENAMES] 1. [-x MANIFEST] To retrieve all metadata components listed in a manifest: $ sfdx force:source:retrieve -x path/to/package.xml 2. [-p SOURCEPATH] To retrieve the source files in a directory: $ sfdx force:source:retrieve -p path/to/source To retrieve a specific Apex class and the objects whose source is in a directory: $ sfdx force:source:retrieve -p path/to/apex/classes/MyClass.cls,path/to/source/objects To retrieve source files in a comma-separated list that contains spaces: $ sfdx force:source:retrieve -p "path/to/objects/MyCustomObject/fields/MyField.field
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