hc update

When Hipcheck is installed using the recommend install scripts provided with each release, the install scripts also provide an "updater" program, built by cargo-dist (which Hipcheck uses to handle creating prebuilt artifacts with each release, and with announcing each release on GitHub Releases). This updater program handles checking for a newer version of Hipcheck, downloading it, and replacing the current version with the newer one. The updater is provided as a separate binary (named either hc-update or hipcheck-update, due to historic bugs).

The hc update command simply delegates to this separate update program, and provides the same interface that this separate update program does. In general, you only need to run hc update with no arguments, followed by hc setup to ensure you have the latest configuration and data files.

If you want to specifically download a version besides the most recent version of Hipcheck, you can use the following flags:

• --tag <TAG>: install the version from this specific Git tag.
• --version <VERSION>: install the version from this specific GitHub release.
• --prerelease: permit installing a pre-release version when updating to latest,

The --tag and --version flags are mutually exclusive; the updater will produce an error if both are provided.

This command also supports Hipcheck's General Flags, though they are ignored.