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Skin installation: do not checkout master branch

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FelixKaiser (talkcontribs)

I've just upgrated to version 1.24 from 1.22. Do do so I needed to install a skin, since it doesn't come with MW. I've spent 3 hours fixing an error in Vector's skin display, because the guide tells you to install the master branch only.

I've now however understand that for the skin also, one should install the REL1_24 branch, using git checkout -b REL1_24 origin/REL1_24

It seems at this time, the master branch was buggy or incompatible. If you understand the release process better than I do and think I am correct, would you be so kind to amend the documentation? Thanks.

Nemo bis (talkcontribs)

MediaWiki from Git is pretty much unusable these days, with all the dependencies. Do you have strong reasons to use Git instead of the tarball?

Frimelle (talkcontribs)
John.james (talkcontribs)

wasn't obvious to me anyway. I just spent three hours before figuring out that there were branches for the skins too. whoops. I was bold and added to the documentation.

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