To update exhibition files two options:
- use git (single command, < minute per update)
- download full folder, unzip, and replace original folder (depends on wifi speed)
Because updates will be distributed, it is better to grab all files, but should you want to only update specifics (after a clean install), you can see what has changed by exploring the commits.
- Per commit, it will show the files & lines that have changed.
- Figure out what was last updated (by date) and find commits after that date.
- Note, in each commit, the changed files.
- Really, it's easier to just bulk download everything, unzip and replace only the changed files.
As the download option is easy, but time consuming, the following guides non-git users through git based updating:
- download and install git on each machine (do this only once) from the git site or for more ui options the github site
- instead of downloading a zip, navigate to where you want the files to sit on your desktop and right click for the option 'open git bash here'
- with git bash's command line interface open type in (for cloning this respositiory) 'git clone https://github.com/siteations/newberryScreen'
- this will download the folder of materials for you, akin to the manual zip download, so this only needs to be done once
- after the folder is downloaded, using git bash, navigate inside by typing 'cd newberryScreen' and notice the hidden '.git' folder
- at this point you should be parallel to the main 'index.html' file
- this is where you will want to be for updates. . . (so when updating, navigate here through your normal graphic user interface and right click, open git bash)
- to update with git bash, simply type 'git pull origin master'
- this command checks in with the git repository, looks at the commit history, and automatically downloads anything that has been updated
the original install is around 10 minutes, the clone is maybe 10-20 minutes akin to the typical download, the pull for updating usually takes less than 30 seconds to update materials
that's it - download git, clone the repository once, and continually update with 'git pull origin master'
- for addition git commands, see the cheatsheet and docs at https://git-scm.com/docs