[fr] implement "--update-to master" parameter

[throwaway242685]

yt-dlp has the following command:

yt-dlp --update-to master

and I was wondering if something similar could be implemented to gallery-dl?

here's the description of that command in yt-dlp:

and here's the verbose log when running the previous command with -v:

yt-dlp --update-to master -v

[debug] Command-line config: ['--update-to', 'master', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out utf-8 (No VT), erro
r utf-8 (No VT), screen utf-8 (No VT)
[debug] yt-dlp version [email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-master-builds
 [55f183337] (win_x86_exe)
[debug] Python 3.8.10 (CPython x86 32bit) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 (OpenSSL 1.1.
1k  25 Mar 2021)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-113725-g37702e2066-20240220 (setts), ffprobe N-11
3725-g37702e2066-20240220
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.20.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2024.02.02,
 mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.31.0, sqlite3-3.35.5, urllib3-2.2.1, websockets-12.0

[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets
[debug] Loaded 1834 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp-master
-builds/releases/latest
Latest version: [email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-master-builds
yt-dlp is up to date ([email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-master-builds)

(in case that it helps with something)

[mikf]

I've implemented a few options related to this:
2e323ef, 5018bd4, 53aadb0

• -U/--update updates an executable file to the latest release
• --update-check checks if the local version is up to date
• --update-to allows switching to a different release channel (stable or dev)
  as well as upgrading/downgrading to a specific tag.
  • --update-to dev
  • --update-to [email protected]
  • --update-to v1.25.2

[throwaway242685]

ohh, thank you, but... idk if the master channel can be downloaded with that?

[mikf]

Just try it. master and nightly are aliased to dev, since they are basically the same (at least for gallery-dl), so --update-to master works.