Look inside ....

If you want to see what is done inside the script UpdateMoodle.sh please feel free to open it with a text editor. It is only a text file but it uses the macOS feature to open a file with a chosen program via doubleclick.

We setup the system utility Terminal to open the file UpdateMoodle.sh and to run the contained script automatically. So everything can be done with a doubleclick. It's easy and everybody can do it!!

#! /bin/sh
#! /bin/sh
#
#  This GIT installer for macOS is part 
#  of the installation package Moodle4Mac
# 
#  20241007 - Ralf Krause
#

echo
echo "+--------------------------------------------+"
echo "| GIT updater for your local Moodle server"
echo "+--------------------------------------------+"
echo

cd /Applications/MAMP/htdocs

if ! test -e moodle405/.git ; then
    ## the first git update must get everything including .git
    git clone --depth 1 -b MOODLE_405_STABLE https://github.com/moodle/moodle.git moodle405-git
    if test -e moodle405-git ; then
        if test -e moodle405 ; then
            if test -e moodle405/config.php ; then
                cp moodle405/config.php moodle405-git/.
            fi
            DATE=`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M`
            mv moodle405 moodle405-$DATE
        fi
        mv moodle405-git moodle405
    fi
    ## the old folder can be deleted now
    ## if you want to do this please remove '##' from the following line
    ## rm -R moodle405-*
else
    ## the next git update only gets the new files
    cd moodle405
    git pull
    cd ..
fi

The different versions of the update script differ only in two things ... first you need to choose the correct folder for the Moodle files and seconds you use the correct git tag for git clone. The shown script is for updating the version Moodle 4.5.

• Moodle 4.1 uses MOODLE_401_STABLE
• Moodle 4.4 uses MOODLE_404_STABLE
• Moodle 4.5 uses MOODLE_405_STABLE
• Moodle 5.0 uses MOODLE_500_STABLE
• Moodle 5.1 uses MOODLE_501_STABLE
• Moodle 5.2dev uses main