From 0c22896f66bdd29c6ede1a7944de0c2703fbfc84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pragmatic Software Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2022 23:20:36 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] doc/QuickStart.md: clarify more about why cloning data-directory is important --- doc/QuickStart.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/QuickStart.md b/doc/QuickStart.md index bf725e31..002c7ef4 100644 --- a/doc/QuickStart.md +++ b/doc/QuickStart.md @@ -177,6 +177,10 @@ PBot uses a data-directory to store all its configuration settings and data. You clone this data-directory for each instance of PBot you want to run, otherwise they will become quite confused with each other and things will break horribly. +Even when you're running just one bot, cloning the data-directory will allow PBot to +be updated via `git` or `unzip` without overwriting your data. PBot will automatically use update +migrations (see [`updates/`](../updates/)) to safely update your existing data with the new data. + Here we clone the data-directory for two PBot instances, naming them after the IRC network they will connect to: