Updating astropy-helpers in a package

Warning

Note that astropy-helpers is deprecated. As justified and described in APE17, the astropy-helpers infrastructure is no longer used for Astropy coordinated or infrastructure packages, and hence is no longer maintained.

Automatic update

If you would like the Astropy team to automatically open pull requests to update astropy-helpers in your package, then see the instructions here.

Manual update

To instead update astropy-helpers manually, go inside the submodule and do:

cd astropy_helpers
git fetch origin

Then checkout the version you want to use, e.g.:

git checkout v3.0.3

Go back up to the root of the repository and update the ah_bootstap.py file too, then add your changes:

cp astropy_helpers/ah_bootstrap.py .
git add astropy_helpers ah_bootstrap.py
git commit ...