Upgrading to 0.5.3

[humanmadeaccount]

When I'm trying to upgrade from 0.5.2 to 0.5.3

What is this?

[Reik]

Why don't you try to set user.email and user.name like in example? If you don't want to make commits, you can set it to something random.

[humanmadeaccount]

I set the email and username but there's another error's.

and

Now I can't start the nodebb. using ./nodebb start

[Reik]

After git pull something goes wrong with package.json, it couldn't automerge. If I were you, I would try to merge manually or I would just backup old package.json, download and put new one instead.

[Scuzz]

@humanmadeaccount I just updated and had the same issue.

try git reset --hard origin/v0.5.x
Fixed it for me.

[humanmadeaccount]

@Scuzz said:

@humanmadeaccount I just updated and had the same issue.

try git reset --hard origin/v0.5.x
Fixed it for me.

I was about to cry. but damn, it works! OMG! thank you so much! @Scuzz

[scottalanmiller]

I keep my upgrade oneliner updated at this location if you ever want to see how I am doing the upgrades.

NodeBB Upgrade Guide

As GroveSocial does this for many more sites than a normal company, we took the five minutes to assemble and test a one liner for upgrading NodeBB. Wanted to post here for anyone searching. Obviously take a database backup first (depends on what database...

MangoLassi (mangolassi.it)

[julian]

Very often, the error messages do tell you what's wrong