Better update routine?

Git is a bad idea for this; use Composer.

But how would I do that? I seem to be changin' a lot of lib files and what have you that is dropped all over the place into application folder, lib folder, third party folder etc.. How do I make sure I can update CI wihout overriding the changes I've made to any file. I thought Composer was just simply a package manager ... !?

https://github.com/kenjis/codeigniter-co...odeigniter

Thank you for that. But as it also states in the installation description, you have to manually update codeigniter application files ... so, not much of a change from a manual update.

How could this be rethought architecturally? It does seem a little odd that we haven't come any longer than this in updating these frameworks ... hmm. But thanks anyway. : )