Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

Updating Odoo source code

To get the latest Odoo source code from the GitHub repository, we use the git pull command. Before doing that, we can use the git tag command to create a tag for the current commit in use, so that it's easier to revert the code update, as follows:

$ sudo su odoo$ cd ~/odoo-12$ git tag --force 12-last-prod$ git pull

For code changes to take effect, we need to restart the Odoo service. For data file changes to take effect, an upgrade to the modules is needed. As a general rule, changes to Odoo stable versions are considered code fixes, and it's therefore not often worth the risk of performing module upgrades. If you need to perform a module upgrade, however, it can be achieved using the -u <module> additional option, ...