Fetching updates on Dreamhack?

[ninetydegrees]

How does one update their repos on their hack now? The 'old' script no longer pulls anything for me (what used to be on http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/wiki/index.php/Dev_Maintenance) and I don't understand how I can keep up with changes. :/

(Context: I'm on Windows; I use PuTTY and WinSCP).

Edit: ok, if anybody else wonders, short answer is you can no longer update your hack using old methods. :/

Edit 2: long answer is you can switch to the new system. See comments for detailed instructions. :)

Comments

[foxfirefey]

Hey--

I was reading over the instructions and realized that they don't have the authenticated versions of the Github URLs, so I have edited them to be like:

git clone https://USERNAME@github.com/USERNAME/dw-free.git $LJHOME

Same with nonfree.

I remember having troubles when it came to actually trying to push anything to my repository without this. I have changed the documentation to reflect the correct things. I'm pretty sure you have already cloned and everything though, but you can change it by being in $LJHOME or $LJHOME/ext/dw-nonfree and going:

git remote set-url origin NEWURL

(you are free to make me explain that some more)

[ninetydegrees]

I went through all the steps and everything worked fine except I didn't need to create /ext because it already existed and running checkconfig gave me an odd message although it looks like this is normal:

Missing optional secret 'invite_img_auth': Auth code for invite code status images

Re: the URLs thing. I don't understand if I'm supposed to do something or not.

[foxfirefey]

Yeah, I'm not really sure that is an important error from checkconfig.

So, if you end up trying to push from your Dreamhack, and you used this URL to clone:

git clone https://github.com/USERNAME/dw-free.git $LJHOME

Instead of one that has an authentication added to it:

git clone https://USERNAME@github.com/USERNAME/dw-free.git $LJHOME

It won't know what to do to authenticate when you try and push changes back--although cloning will have worked just fine! But, you can change the URLs in dw-free and dw-nonfree without having to reclone things by using the remote set-url command:

cd $LJHOME
git remote set-url origin https://ninetyd@github.com/ninetyd/dw-free.git $LJHOME
cd $LJHOME/ext/dw-nonfree
git remote set-url origin https://ninetyd@github.com/ninetyd/dw-nonfree.git $LJHOME

That way, when you go to push something, it will ask you for a password and you can provide it.

[ninetydegrees]

Thanks for the clear explanation. However, the git remote command gave me an error:

fatal: No such URL found: /dreamhack/home/8174-ninetydegrees/dw

[foxfirefey]

My fault, $LJHOME should not be on the end of those, it is confusing it to bits, these are better:

cd $LJHOME
git remote set-url origin https://ninetyd@github.com/ninetyd/dw-free.git
cd $LJHOME/ext/dw-nonfree
git remote set-url origin https://ninetyd@github.com/ninetyd/dw-nonfree.git

[ninetydegrees]

Ok done.