How to update your bots and keep your changes locally

[Valmere]

By following this guide you will be able to clone a project or fork directly to your computer, change whatever you need, and update changes from the master without needing to go through the whole process over again. To edit the bot's source you will need Visual Studio installed. If that's too much or nothing in this guide makes sense, you might be better off downloading a compiled version from maclone's thread: http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/poke...ongo-bots.html (Maclone's Community Versions - Compiled, ready to go PokemonGo bots)

This can be used to update any of the current bots that are on github.

Starting out, to clone a repository to your computer you'll need a program called Git Extensions.

• Download it from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gitextensions/

Once it's installed, create a new folder somewhere. I use my desktop



Right click the folder, go to Git Extensions and click Clone



Add the repo you want to clone to the first field and then click Clone
(optionally change the subdirectory name, not needed for normal users)






You now have a working copy of the bot's source on your computer, the same as you would if you had downloaded the master zip. Make any changes to the code that you normally would and then compile the bot. After you save your changes, right click the repository's folder and click GitExt Browse



If you've made any changes the commit button at the top should be red and it will tell you how many files are different. Click the button to save your changes locally



Any edits you've made will show up in the top left box. Press the circled downarrow to add all changes to the commit, then fill out a message and press commit



Now you should see your commit at the top of the screen and the button should be green again. To pull updates from the master, click Pull



Make sure rebase is clicked and then click Pull again. The program will attempt to pull updates from the master repo and merge any changes with your local branch. If it finds any conflicts or issues, it will pop up a box and provide you with some additional options.

And that's it. You shouldn't run into many merge conflicts unless you're going ham with modifications, at which point you probably know what you're doing already and are preparing to make PRs.

[MakingPaint]

Thanks so much!

[Ransu]

lmfao too much ****en work, probably better off downloading any updates the creator makes and uploads.

[gurkensalat88]

thanks valmere .. very clear instruction ..im problemz from discord .. that timing ...

[smashdex]

Anyone else getting installation directory must be on a local hard drive error when trying to install git extensions?

[Valmere]

Anyone else getting installation directory must be on a local hard drive error when trying to install git extensions?

Try running the installer as admin

[redongreen]

nvm.. sorted! Thanks.

[smashdex]

Try running the installer as admin

When I right click it there is no run as admin option

[Valmere]

When I right click it there is no run as admin option

That appears to be a very rare occurrence. Either run an elevated cmd prompt to execute it or see if there's an unblock button at the bottom of the properties tab

[bimaradhpoke]

TYVM....now i dont need to re download and resetting every 1 hoursr ^^...really2 thanks for the guide!!

[wetshrimp]

thank you so much. been googling this for a day and didnt figure it out still!

[Valmere]

thank you so much. been googling this for a day and didnt figure it out still!

TYVM....now i dont need to re download and resetting every 1 hoursr ^^...really2 thanks for the guide!!

You're welcome, it's easy once you get the hang of it and can be applied to more than just PoGo bots

[wetshrimp]

Hi, still a littl econfused. So I had the necro bot cloned yesterday afternoon. since then i have made several changes but didint fully get through to your guide. i currenly have two branches (i dont understand what these are) called "master" and "originalitsmine". I do not know how to properly update since i dont want to lose my changes too and rebase says
""D:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe" pull --rebase --progress "origin"
You asked to pull from the remote 'origin', but did not specify
a branch. Because this is not the default configured remote
for your current branch, you must specify a branch on the command line.
Done"

can you help? i would like to update to the new necro bot and also keep my changes. added in a few lines in several files here and there so idk if thats even possible.

[Valmere]

Hi, still a littl econfused. So I had the necro bot cloned yesterday afternoon. since then i have made several changes but didint fully get through to your guide. i currenly have two branches (i dont understand what these are) called "master" and "originalitsmine". I do not know how to properly update since i dont want to lose my changes too and rebase says
""D:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe" pull --rebase --progress "origin"
You asked to pull from the remote 'origin', but did not specify
a branch. Because this is not the default configured remote
for your current branch, you must specify a branch on the command line.
Done"

can you help? i would like to update to the new necro bot and also keep my changes. added in a few lines in several files here and there so idk if thats even possible.

Could you edit your post and snip out my entire post? lol

To answer your question, always update from master

[Reuspa]

Could you expand the last picture? Since all i was able to do is overwrite all the changes i did to the code once an update was released.
Pull window does not really show how to not overwrite some of the files, with this rebase stuff