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Updating Remote Overlays

When overlays come from GitHub, repoverlay can pull the latest changes and re-apply them.

Updating all overlays

Section titled “Updating all overlays”
Terminal window
repoverlay update

This checks each GitHub-sourced overlay for new commits, pulls updates, and re-applies changed files.

Updating a specific overlay

Section titled “Updating a specific overlay”
Terminal window
repoverlay update my-overlay

Preview changes

Section titled “Preview changes”

See what would be updated without making changes:

Terminal window
repoverlay update --dry-run

When to update

Section titled “When to update”
  • After the overlay source has been updated on GitHub
  • When you want to pick up config changes shared by your team
  • Periodically, to stay in sync with upstream overlay changes