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eschwartz · 09-02-2014, 08:13 PM

"git clone" will create a new cloned repo. "git pull" will update the one you already have.

--no-edit just accepts the default commit message if you are merging other code in from a deviating branch. It is unnecessary if you are just pulling new commits from the same branch, but it won't hurt. Leave it in or take it out, as you will.

7-zip is a good unarchiver unlike the default windows unzip. You should be able to extract the tar.xz directly as a folder, play around with the options. (It's been a while, I usually use the linux command-line.)

The problem may be extracting to an external drive especially USB2.0 -- much slower to write than the internal hard drive. Even USB3.0 would do much better.

09-02-2014, 08:13 PM	#174
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	"git clone" will create a new cloned repo. "git pull" will update the one you already have. --no-edit just accepts the default commit message if you are merging other code in from a deviating branch. It is unnecessary if you are just pulling new commits from the same branch, but it won't hurt. Leave it in or take it out, as you will. 7-zip is a good unarchiver unlike the default windows unzip. You should be able to extract the tar.xz directly as a folder, play around with the options. (It's been a while, I usually use the linux command-line.) The problem may be extracting to an external drive especially USB2.0 -- much slower to write than the internal hard drive. Even USB3.0 would do much better. Last edited by eschwartz; 09-02-2014 at 08:18 PM.