yadm-upgrade

Upgrade yadm to the latest version

$ yadm upgrade

$ yadm upgrade -f

yadm upgrade

--help
    Display help message and exit.

--no-backup
    Do not create backups before the upgrade.

The yadm-upgrade command is a utility specifically designed for the yadm (Yet Another Dotfiles Manager) tool. Its primary function is to facilitate seamless upgrades of a yadm-managed dotfiles repository. This involves fetching the latest changes from the remote repository configured for yadm, resolving any potential merge conflicts that may arise, and updating the local working directory to reflect the updated state.

The upgrade process typically involves performing a git fetch followed by a git merge operation. The command handles common upgrade scenarios and helps keep the local dotfiles synchronized with the remote repository. It ensures that configuration changes, scripts, and other dotfiles are kept up-to-date, promoting consistency across different systems where the dotfiles are used. In case of conflicts during merge, the user is required to resolve conflicts manually before the upgrade is complete. Error handling and informative messages are generally provided to guide the user through the upgrade process.

The upgrade process might create merge conflicts if local changes are incompatible with remote updates. Users should resolve these conflicts manually.

The command essentially performs a git fetch to update the remote tracking branches and then attempts a git merge. If the merge fails due to conflicts, the user must resolve them within the yadm managed directory.

By default, yadm upgrade makes a backup of all files that are to be overwritten by the upgrade process. This can be prevented with the --no-backup option

yadm and consequently the yadm-upgrade command are relatively recent developments in dotfiles management. They emerged to simplify the process of managing and synchronizing dotfiles across multiple machines. The command has evolved as the yadm project has gained popularity and its functionality has been refined.

yadm(1), git(1)