Posting assumes you can install git via your package manager (yum/apt-get/whatever). Many distros now included it when distro installed.
Dunno if you have it? which git [ENTER]
IF the above doesn’t respond with the path to git (normally /usr/bin/git) then your server doesn’t have it installed.
Situation: have an existing moodle but installed via ftp/wget or some other method of acquiring code. Code resides in /var/www/html/ and the version of your moodle is 1.9.x
Using Git: “side load”
cd /var/www/
git clone git://git.moodle.org/moodle.git htmlgit
cd htmlgit
git branch –track MOODLE_19_STABLE origin/MOODLE_19_STABLE
git checkout MOODLE_19_STABLE
To see if you are tracking/checked out the 1.9:
git branch -a
The * should be next to the 1.9 branch.
chown apache:apache * -R
We are still in htmlgit. Now the side load.
cp -rp .git .gitignore .gitattributes ../html/
The above copies (cp) recursively (-r) and preserves (-p) .git (the hidden .git directory and the hidden .gitignore and .gitattributes files up on level (out of htmlgit) and into html … where the moodle code resides.
Now we check the active code directory …
cd ../html/
ls -ld .git (is .git there?)
Now we check which branch it’s tracking.
git branch -a
Should show us:
* MOODLE_19_STABLE
master
with other versions of Moodle under ‘master’.
To make sure git understands issue the following while in /var/www/html/
git reset –hard
The above should result in something like:
Checking out files: 100% (18560/18560), done.
HEAD is now at [lettersnumbers] release 1.9.20+
You are now ready to update the 1.9.x code to the highest 1.9.x version available.
This is a one time thing … using git from this point forward will take place in the code directory of moodle with other git commands.
You can also remove the /var/www/htmlgit directory we used to side load as it is just taking up space now.