What is the correct way to update?

[dvztimes]

The documentation is excellent. Thank you. However, there is no "How to update" section. Given how fast this is developing (again excellent) some instructions on updating would be very helpful. Right now I am doing a fresh install each time and that seems unecessary (I think). Even if that is the correct way, some instructions on it would be nice.

Thank you.

[jwax33]

You can use a "git pull" statement in webui-user.bat to download any changes every time you run the program. Just put it on a new line right above the last line that says "call webui.bat".

[ClashSAN]

Make a file called updater.bat in the stable-diffusion-webui folder. In updater.bat put in with "git pull origin master"
I would recommend keeping two copies of the webui project folder, if you can afford the space. Use one to update, for testing special features recently added (found by reading commits) and one as a stable version for running custom scripts.

[dvztimes]

Thank you both.

So are the directories completely self-contained? Meaning the python environments dont cross pollinate with each other? Same with the diffusers, etc? So that is how i can use two separate folders of it?

Again, thank you.

[ophoria]

They are, and yet requirements for dependencies could change, and then updating by doing the above alone would not solve much.

[Omegadarling]

I tried that line in a .bat file and also from a command line and I get the same error: fatal:

not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

[Omegadarling]

Well, since nobody answered I did a search for this error and someone suggested running

git clean -d -f

That made the list of what might get overwritten much smaller. Just webui-user.bat and webui-user.sh, so I moved those manually and then finally ran git pull https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui.git without a hitch. "git pull origin master" didn't work, it just gets the error

fatal: 'origin' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

I'm really not sure I did it right, but webgui still runs without a hitch, so maybe?