Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
How to update the master branch?
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 @e3v3a I take your point; in my case I’m running a reasonable size card and Raspbian/MM are all that is on the card. I do also mention to delete MM-Backupwhen they’re done. I really just wanted to give them the extra insurance of a full backup. Good call ontar, but they then need to know how to unpack it.@strawberry-3.141 If you’re using git to stash changes, then you’ve clearly modified other files (IIRC, config.jsand maybecustom.cssare ignored). As above, I just wanted to give extra assurance that they had a full copy if anything went totally awry.
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 Hallo, noob braucht hilfe =) Wie kann ich bei dieser Fehlermeldung updaten? pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd ~/MagicMirror && git pull Aktualisiere 8010e62..60b9a5b error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge: modules/default/calendar/calendar.js modules/default/compliments/compliments.js
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 @ninjabreadman - I tried to update accordingly your reply but i’m stranded. After git stashthe system tells mepi@magicpi:~/MagicMirror $ git stash *** Please tell me who you are. Run git config --global user.email "you@example.com" git config --global user.name "Your Name" to set your account's default identity. Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository. fatal: unable to auto-detect email address (got 'pi@magicpi.(none)') Cannot save the current index stateI don’t know how to react on this, you? 
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 @frans said in How to update the master branch?: git config --global user.email “you@example.com” 
 git config --global user.name “Your Name”type those commands, add your email and name 
 git doesn’t allow anonymous actions
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 @sdetweil said in How to update the master branch?: git config --global user.name “Your Name” Worked!! Thanks! 
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 Und was soll uns das sagen? 
 Any info about this error?pi@WEG-Infopanel:~/MagicMirror $ git stash 
 package-lock.json: needs merge
 vendor/package-lock.json: needs merge
 package-lock.json: needs merge
 vendor/package-lock.json: needs merge
 package-lock.json: unmerged (928d17635a4aff632b96c3d78499948e24eb70be)
 package-lock.json: unmerged (1e84cc321d5ecb4199add46a08bfd7f3446d9c11)
 package-lock.json: unmerged (281f5adadabad8c0fa36c54a8b5c882b66e06722)
 vendor/package-lock.json: unmerged (a326b4026808f4b1ab060fe3c12e385f82330759)
 vendor/package-lock.json: unmerged (793948105835abe0d92caaf321cb78150cc983a4)
 vendor/package-lock.json: unmerged (9ad15ee58a9adce0f84708789296d2ae2ec1e029)
 fatal: git-write-tree: error building trees
 Kann den aktuellen Zustand des Index nicht speichern
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 @robiv8 - You can delete those files and then do another git pull. So: cd ~/MagicMirror rm package-lock.json rm vendor/package-lock.json git pull npm install
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 @ninjabreadman I followed these steps and after running git stash apply I still get the “please commit changes” message…I’ve already backed up so unless the new update is thinking it also needs to be backed up I’m lost 
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 @shazam23 
 You have modified files that has not been ‘saved’ in the git database. Type ‘git status’, and it will list those changes.
 After that you can decide what to do: keep the changes (in this case use ‘git commit’)
 revert or discard the changes (in this case ‘git checkout’ is the command, if I am not mistaken)Not sure what exactly you try to achieve, but for an update I would use a fresh directory instead. Just create a new one and clone into it… 

