I am currently on v4.0 of the Dawn Theme and recently I saw there was an update for v5.0.
Now, I haven’t received any notification to auto-update the theme as mine is heavily customized, so my question is:
is there any source code for the changes that are being made in v5.0 so that I can inject them manually into the theme?
It really is not an option to start all over every time a new version comes out because in my case it would take weeks to get everything done again and it’s just not the case.
So I was looking at the GitHub page of the Dawn Theme and it turns out that all the changes are in there.
If I compare the new 5.0 version to the older 4.0, it shows all the files changed plus the additions and deletions.
Basically the “only” thing to do to manually update is to add/delete every single addition/deletion which is a huge work. Nonetheless I guess it is a solution to manually update.
Can anybody confirm that this is the only solution??
P.S. in the same GitHub page it says:
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Say you’re building a new theme off Dawn but you still want to be able to pull in the latest changes, you can add a remote upstream pointing to this Dawn repository.
Navigate to your local theme folder.
Verify the list of remotes and validate that you have both an origin and upstream:
*git remote -v*
If you don’t see an upstream, you can add one that points to Shopify’s Dawn repository:
I would like to know, you were able to solve this?
I tried to create a git repository, then copied my downloaded theme files in it. Then I was able to ‘git remote add upstream’ and ‘git fetch upstream’. But not the last step as the branches are out of sync.
I am not a git expert yet. I will keep looking or else start copying over my snippets/adjustments of code to the new 5.0 version of Dawn.
Hello, not yet, I am not an expert either with GitHub. As soon as I have some time to spare, I will look into this again. If you manage to solve it, please share the solution here as it would help so many people.