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Bug 44212 - Suggest to users to install from git

Summary:	Suggest to users to install from git

Status: UNCONFIRMED Product: MediaWiki Classification: Unclassified Component: Installer (Other open bugs) Version: 1.21.x Hardware: All All Importance: Low enhancement (vote) Target Milestone: --- Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this! URL: Whiteboard: Keywords: Depends on: Blocks: documentation   Show dependency tree / graph		Reported: 2013-01-21 16:43 UTC by Sam Reed (reedy) Modified: 2014-02-12 23:35 UTC (History) CC List: 3 users (show) bugzilla+org.wikimedia federicoleva krenair See Also: Web browser: --- Mobile Platform: --- Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---

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Description Sam Reed (reedy) 2013-01-21 16:43:28 UTC Although upgrading isn't so difficult, doing it via git would be easier - just checking out the new branch. Maybe the installer should suggest users clone using git to aid future upgrades? With examples of course Comment 1 Chad H. 2013-01-22 13:05:28 UTC This is probably a bad idea imho. Comment 2 Nemo 2013-09-10 07:44:36 UTC (In reply to comment #1) > This is probably a bad idea imho. *Very* bad. Upgrading is easy, but dealing with the "upgraded" software is not at all. Suggest WONTFIX here.