Ran into an issue this weekend when attempting to do an update. I figured I’d wait a few days to see if anyone else was having a similar issue, but since no one else is, I’m sure it’s something on my end. /opt/ghost# git pull && docker compose pull && docker compose up -d Updating fa605e9..2926758 …

It looks like you might have made some customizations to the compose file. You can run git diff to see the changes. If you don’t care about the changes, you can run git checkout -- compose.yml to undo them, and then run your sync command again.

Error updating - local changes to compose.yml will be overwritten

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boelder December 1, 2025, 8:28pm 3

Ahhh, this is related to the last issue I had…

Thanks so much for your response!

-b

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