Are there any thoughts on managing updates of Mediawiki with git? I'm not a developer... but I have flirted with the idea a bit. I program occasionally here and there-- though my day job is totally unrelated. I have played with git and I have a couple of Mediawiki installs that are running from installs via git. I like that I can roll forward and roll back easily. Updates of the wiki in theory should be: ---- pathofwiki# git checkout 1.26.4 pathofwiki# php maintenance/update.php ---- What is opaque to me is the submodules. The skins, extensions and external libraries have to be updated with two or three commands... this is missing. I think it stems from gaps in my knowledge about git. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_Git#Download_an_extension suggests: --- cd path/to/extensions git pull git submodule update --init --recursive --- --- If I try the above I get... cd path/to/extensions # git pull You are not currently on a branch. Please specify which branch you want to merge with. See git-pull(1) for details. git pull <remote> <branch> --- Branch info # git branch * (detached from 1.26.4) master --- # git submodule update --init --recursive seems to do nothing Can someone enlighten me on this or point me to something like "git for amateurs"? Thanks in Advance, Michael