Please commit your changes or stash them before you switch branches.?

Help with Setup/Upgrade
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Hello

I am trying to upgrade my MIAB to V-latest.

I recall some time ago there was a need to make a minor change to the html in management/templates/aliases.html to eradicate a display issue…

Now when i try to run “curl -s https://mailinabox.email/setup.sh | sudo bash” to upgrade to the recently released version with the php fixes, i get this error:

ubuntu@box:~$ curl -s https://mailinabox.email/setup.sh | sudo bash
Updating Mail-in-a-Box to v78 . . .
remote: Enumerating objects: 1, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1/1), done.
remote: Total 1 (delta 0), reused 1 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (1/1), 364 bytes | 364.00 KiB/s, done.
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:
management/templates/aliases.html
Please commit your changes or stash them before you switch branches.
Aborting
Update failed. Did you modify something in /root/mailinabox?

My /usr/local/bin/mailinabox yields:

ubuntu@box:~/mailinabox$ cat /usr/local/bin/mailinabox
#!/bin/bash
cd /root/mailinabox
source setup/start.sh

Is there a known workaround for this to force the updade to run please?

By the way, I am running v75 and want to jump to v78: A new version of Mail-in-a-Box is available. You are running version v75. The latest version is v78. For upgrade instructions, see https://mailinabox.email.

Cheers

Terry

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Hello,
Yes, the mentioned change to “management/templates/aliases.html”
prevents the update.
(I had the original file saved, so I simply copied it back.)
After that, the update proceeded without any issues.

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Were possible solutions discussed here? :

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I also tried that before i blogged about the issue but it didn’t resolve.

BOX-xxxxx-COM ubuntu@box:~/mailinabox$ git status
fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at ‘/home/ubuntu/mailinabox’
To add an exception for this directory, call:

git config --global --add safe.directory /home/ubuntu/mailinabox

BOX-xxxxx ubuntu@box:~/mailinabox$

I’m a bit lost on what to do here

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I guess the other question is… is there a got command i can issue that will pull the aliases.hmtl file down from the GIT for V75 and overwrite the one the upgrade thinks is suspicious? I’m happier to do that as ill then upgrade to latest which fixes the issue?

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wget mailinabox/management/templates/aliases.html at main · mail-in-a-box/mailinabox · GitHub ?

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You can check what changes git sees by running git status in the /root/mailinabox folder. If you’re satisfied you’re not losing anything, run git reset --hard HEAD This will reset your local git repository

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Ahhh KiekerJan, you are a genius whoever and wherever you are. :waving_hand: from Auckland New Zealand.

Your advice worked perfectly and now my server is on V78. Right, time to upgrade the next one!!

Thank you!