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Fetching updates on Dreamhack?

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. :)

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So I read the section and I have questions:

Is there any difference between git pull dreamwidth and git pull because dwfree says DW but nonfree doesn't?

When I do git push... it asks me for my GH password? Is this normal? Is this going to do that every time?

Oh man, we must have passed each other--

I've made some revisions to Dev Maintenance. They basically make this a lot less...dependent on circumstances, in my opinion? Both git pull dreamwidth and git pull had troubles coping with when I was in a different branch and it ended up making things more complicated to make instructions for.

It's normal that it's asking for your password. I'm trying to figure out how to get it to remember the password, since it's kind of annoying.

Yeah, we did but I like having it explained anyway.

Other question: when I update my DB it asks me if I want to delete all the S2 layers. Normal too?

I think it might be normal if you had styles patches you were working on in the old thing, which I suspect is the case, and now with this new thing those files don't exist anymore, which prompts the update process to be all oh maybe I should delete these and really, never answer yes because I have found out it's far easier to have styles cruft around than to fix it if you had a user using one of those styles that ended up deleted, ha.

I was only working on one style and this is asking me about many, many layers which are for different styles and look like they exist. I'm tempted to say yes actually because it's going to ask me every time. (and yeah I know it sucks when a layer is delete because you have to go create a new style but...).

That's kind of strange then. I haven't had that happen and I'm a bit confused as to why it is popping up for you. And the files exist for those styles?

oh. took a closer look and it looks like these are all nonfree themes so might it be because they changed location with the new folder structure and it can't find them anymore?

I see it's been fixed! Yay! So I'm all up-to-date now and dwdb no longer gives me any error. I also see you made a new page and I'll go through it today hopefully (doesn't matter really) and bother you with any question I have in a new thread. *bg*

I don't know if you can git to remember the password for ever, but you can definitely make it remember it for 15 minutes so that you don't have to type it more than that often.

On a dreamhack, type

git config --global credential.helper=cache

I have suggested that this be made a system-wide default on dreamhacks, along with some stuff like putting some outputs into colour.

Great minds think alike because I believe Fey has added this to http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/wiki/index.php/Git_settings. *g*

Edited (too early for grammar *yawns*) 2012-09-01 09:06 (UTC)

ah - actually, that was me :-)

XD Sorry I didn't look at the history. Thanks a lot. This is really helpful.

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