sparrowhawk/cdist
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull requests Projects Releases Wiki Activity

add detailled upgrade instructions

Browse source 
Signed-off-by: Nico Schottelius <nico@bento.schottelius.org>
This commit is contained in:
Nico Schottelius 2013-07-16 17:11:24 +02:00
parent 71f01ca735
commit 3de17b2aa2
1 changed files with 33 additions and 0 deletions
Show stats Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

33
docs/web/cdist/update.mdwn
View file

@ -14,6 +14,39 @@ If you stay on a version branche (i.e. 1.0, 1.1., ...), nothing should break.
The master branch on the other hand is the development branch and may not be
working, break your setup or eat the tree in your garden.
### Safely upgrading to new versions
To upgrade to **any** further cdist version, you can take the
following procedure to do a safe upgrade:
# Create new branch to try out the update
git checkout -b upgrade_cdist
# Get latest cdist version in git database
git fetch -v
# see what will happen on merge - replace
# master with the branch you plan to merge
git diff upgrade_cdist..origin/master
# Merge the new version
git merge origin/master
Now you can ensure all custom types work with the new version.
Assume that you need to go back to an older version during
the migration/update, you can do so as follows:
# commit changes
git commit -m ...
# go back to original branch
git checkout master
After that, you can go back and continue the upgrade:
# git checkout upgrade_cdist
## Update The Python Package
To upgrade to the lastet version do