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need git help to update version 2.18

need git help to update version 2.18

by Larry Riddle -
Number of replies: 1

Our developmental webwork server is running version 2.18, installed in fall 2023 and has not been updated since. I would like to update it now to get any fixes to 2.18. (We will be updating to 2.19 once the academic year is completed next May.)

I have followed the instructions to do git fetch origin, then git checkout -b WeBWorK-2.18+ WeBWorK-2.18+. But when I then do a git pull, I get the response

There is no tracking information for the current branch.
Please specify which branch you want to merge with.
See git-pull(1) for details.

    git pull <remote> <branch>

If you wish to set tracking information for this branch you can do so with:

    git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/<branch> WeBWorK-2.18+

I'm not a git expert, so not sure how to proceed with either of those two suggestions in the response. Could someone help with what needs to be done? Thanks.

In reply to Larry Riddle

Re: need git help to update version 2.18

by Glenn Rice -

You don't need to run "git pull". You checked out the WeBWorK-2.18+ tag into the WeBWorK2.18+ branch. That is all you need to do. You can't pull a tag. It is fixed.