How do updates work

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Re: How do updates work

Postby IAHM-COL » Thu Dec 31, 2015 8:15 pm

Hi D-SANNI

1. git works awesome. It is a developers' tool. But 'users' can use it to obtain (fetch) the latest/newest versions of the developers on the fly.

2. you can get one FGMEMBERS aircraft without even bothering with git. Using the download zip button to download, then uncompressing (unzipping) and finally properly renaming the uncompressed directory. (but you would miss the better feature of keeping up2date).
To do that latter, you better use a git software (depending on your OS you may have it already or need to install one), then
you clone (obtain your copy)

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git clone url-to-the-repo


That will get you the aircraft (no need to rename)

and when chages occur, you don't need to download everything again, just syncing your local copy to the remote changes. That is what "pull" does

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git pull


And that's all for 1 aircraft. (for the user side of it)

Will this break your local huey?
No it won't.
You can't clone a repo in an existing directory for exact same reason! The github huey will have a different path in your computer.

Can you obtain all 700 aircrafts in FGMEMBERS with ease? Yes! That's the beauty of FGDATA next with submodules. The instructions for this are located elswhere: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=13

And that's it!

(oh by the way...

You can also send me a zip file with your huey version and I can share it with everyone in FGMEMBERS in a new huey branch. That'll be great. --if you can or want to share that great huey with us... besides, that branch will become a safe backup for you, in the future)

IH-COL

(Finally... Don't fear to ask more questions, or help as you go, in this forum, about this.)
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Re: How do updates work

Postby legoboyvdlp » Thu Dec 31, 2015 8:56 pm

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