git fetch fails when trying to upgrade 0.9.3 -> 0.9.4

[Pilvinen]

I'm trying to upgrade 0.9.3 to 0.9.4:

cd mynodebb
git fetch

"fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /home)
Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set)."

I seem to be missing .git directory.

What now?

[Pilvinen]

Hm, it's now showing 0.9.4 after I cloned another nodebb with:

git clone -b v0.9.3 https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB.git nodebb

Then moved .git from that installation to my forum nodebb.
Then I ran:
git checkout -f v0.9.x
git merge origin/v0.9.x
git pull

And ran ./nodebb upgrade
And ran npm install + npm update a few times.

I have no idea what all of this is supposed to do but since ACP is now showing 0.9.4 I suppose it's all right, right?

Please update the upgrade instructions - It doesn't seem like those git commands really do anything meaningful ... and there is no mention of npm update which eventually seemed to fix the issues I was having with Nodebb not updating...

[frissdiegurke]

If correctly installed, the .git directory would be there. Maybe you've copied "everything" within the NodeBB directory at one time and since directories starting with . are hidden by default, you've lost this during it.

And if the .git directory is there, the update commands within the docs make sense. npm update (more specific npm install --production, which does include package update) gets called during the ./nodebb upgrade command.