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If you want to easily stay up-to-date with the latest version of Mysterious Messenger without disturbing your existing code, setting up a fork of the Mysterious Messenger repository will allow you to easily merge updates onto your existing code.

What you need:

Instructions

  • First, go to https://github.com/shawna-p/mysterious-messenger and sign into GitHub.

  • In the top-right corner of the page, click Fork.

  • Open Git Bash (Windows) or Terminal (Mac)

  • Change the current directory to the one where you want the cloned project to be. You can type ls (lowercase LS) to see a list of directories available to you, and cd Documents to change to the Documents folder, for example.

  • Type git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/mysterious-messenger where YOUR-USERNAME is your GitHub username where you forked the repository. Press Enter.

You should now have a local copy of the mysterious-messenger repository. Next, you’ll configure it to get the most recent update.

  • Navigate in Git Bash/Terminal to the new directory where you cloned the repository. If you still have Git Bash/Terminal open, you should be able to type cd mysterious-messenger to open it.

  • Type git remote -v and press Enter. You should see

$ git remote -v
> origin https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/mysterious-messenger.git (fetch)
> origin https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/mysterious-messenger.git (push)

  • Type git remote add upstream https://github.com/shawna-p/mysterious-messenger.git and press Enter.

  • Type git remote -v and press Enter. It should now look like:

$ git remote -v
> origin https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/mysterious-messenger.git (fetch)
> origin https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/mysterious-messenger.git (push)
> upstream https://github.com/shawna-p/mysterious-messenger.git (fetch)
> upstream https://github.com/shawna-p/mysterious-messenger.git (push)

Now you should make sure you get the most recent released version, which is currently v3.3.0

  • Type git checkout v3.3.0 and press Enter

  • Next, type git merge tags/v3.3.0 and press Enter.

You should now have v3.3.0 of Mysterious Messenger. In the future, you can use git checkout v3.3.0 and git merge tags/v3.3.0 with future version numbers to update to the latest version of Mysterious Messenger.

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