If you have lots of extensions; and maintain a git checkout for each
extension, I wrote a script to help with upgrades:
https://freephile.org/wiki/MediaWiki/Upgrade/REL1_26_to_REL1_27 The script
checks each extension directory for a .git dir, the status of the current
checkout, whether or not ther
On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 5:54 PM, Dr. Michael Bonert
wrote:
> One issue I encountered is that: the extensions don't update right away - as
> per the page 'Special:Version'.
>
> Is there a simple way to reload the extensions?
> Is it caching?
Special:Verison caches the VCS version information for e
The extension diectory is its own repo, check it out and update it, along
with the skins directory
On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 6:55 PM Dr. Michael Bonert <
mich...@librepathology.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been running Mediawiki and updating with git - general outline here:
> https://www.mediawi
Hello,
I have been running Mediawiki and updating with git - general outline here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_Git#Keeping_up_to_date
On update I pull recent versions of:
(1) mediawiki, (2) the extensions, (3) the skins, and (4) the external
libraries
with git.
I then run 'u
