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Updating a local repo

If you’ve already cloned a repo to your personal computer and you wish to pull the latest version of that repo unto your computer, you will want to follow these steps:

Note that if you have edits in your local repo that were not included in the Github repo prior to that Github version being updated, you will very likely encounter an error.

  1. Open a git bash shell and navigate into the repo folder on your computer using the cd command

  2. Type the following git command:

    git pull
    

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