issues updating MMM-calendar EXT3

[JMac]

@sdetweil so just to be clear its,
git checkout package-lock.json
git reset
git pull
npm install

within the calendar ext3 module folder?

[sdetweil]

@JMac no
edited

# put package-lock.json back to last git clone state
git checkout package-lock.json
# update the module
git pull
# rerun npm install  with new code
npm install

all in the module folder

# lines are comments and will be ignored if you copy paste that whole thing

[nschertz]

@sdetweil I just encountered the same problem and followed your instructions in your last post. This did not fix the problem. I continue to get the same error

“your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by the merge: package-lock.json
please commit them or stash them before you merge.
Aborting.”

Thoughts on what to do next?

Norb

[sdetweil]

@nschertz you ARE in the module folder, right?
edited

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-CalendarExt3
git checkout package-lock.json
git pull
npm install

right?

[BKeyport]

just for information, the real issue is the the lock file is included in the package, right?

[sdetweil]

@BKeyport and it gets updated by npm install

You can do npm ci
Which will ONLY install the EXACT versions listed in the lock file, even if it’s wrong for your system

[nschertz]

@sdetweil Correct. After executing “git reset package-lock.json”, I get the message “Unstaged changes after reset:
M package-lock.json”

I then run git pull and get
pi@MagicMirror:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-CalendarExt3 $ git pull

Updating e93534d…5f276d4
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
package-lock.json
Please commit your changes or stash them before you merge.
Aborting

[sdetweil]

@nschertz sorry, oops… wrong command!

git checkout package-lock.json

fixed the prior posts with note edited

[nschertz]

to clarify… execute “git checkout package.json” instead of " git reset package.json" or execute “git checkout package.json” and " git reset package.json"?

[sdetweil]

@nschertz git checkout

restores it from the local source repo

git reset
removes it from the staged to be submitted as a change

I posted the checkout first, then a user posted reset and I blindly followed it…
my mistake

[nschertz]

oops meant to type

to clarify… execute “git checkout package-lock.json” instead of " git reset package-lock.json" or execute “git checkout package-lock.json” and " git reset package-lock.json"?

[nschertz]

Got it ! git checkout… worked! Thanks for the clarification on what git reset does verses git checkout.

[sdetweil]

@nschertz awesome… sorry for the misdirection

[sdetweil]

in the git model

the files you see are called the working directory
and the repo is hidden in the .git folder

that is where the actual ‘state’/contents of each file exists

so checkout copies the contents from the repo to the working directory

if you were developing and had a change
git status would show changed files in the working directory

git diff will show WHAT changed on each file

to lock it down in the local copy of the repo
you git add it to a potential ‘commit’,
then git status shows it as ‘staged’

to REMOVE it from staged, use the git reset command

git commit puts it into the local repo as a change

then you ‘push’ your entire local repo to the parent (git remote -v)

and the changes (if accepted) are merged and that change is in the master for
all new ‘pulls’

[nschertz]

@sdetweil thank you ! This explanation is very helpful. I’m still a little new to the git environment.