webERP Forum

Should I download the ZIP file, or install via GitHub? If via GitHub, then should I clone the default branch or the master branch?

My personal opinion is that I would download the master branch from https://github.com/webERP-team/webERP/ar...master.zip and install from there. Virtually all the commits since the last release have been bug fixes and so it is probably more stable than the last release file.

Of course, whichever you do test first.

Tim

(09-08-2020, 01:21 AM)falkoner Wrote: [ -> ]My personal opinion is that I would download the master branch from https://github.com/webERP-team/webERP/ar...master.zip and install from there. Virtually all the commits since the last release have been bug fixes and so it is probably more stable than the last release file.

Of course, whichever you do test first.

Tim

Thankyou for the rapid response, Tim. Any reason why you specify the zip file instead of simply "git clone -b master https://github.com/webERP-team/webERP.git" ?

Cloning will download the entire history of the project inside the .git sub-directory. The zip file just downloads the necessary files for actual use of webERP. If you were considering contributing code upstream then you should clone, otherwise the zip file is more efficient.

If you were thinking of contributing, then cloning within GitHub to your own repository is a better way anyway.

HTH
Tim

Thankyou, again, Tim. Space/speed is not a significant issue, and we would be using Git internally anyway, so I will stick with cloning. Had not thought of doing that within GitHub (am fairly new to GitHub), but that sounds worth thinking about.

Regards, Tom