--update has the same behaviour as --update-check

[ruben1PvP]

As the title suggests, using --update only checks what the latest version is but doesn't download and/or installs it, just as --update-check does.

gallery-dl --update -v
[gallery-dl][debug] Version 1.27.6-dev
[gallery-dl][debug] Python 3.11.3 - Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0
[gallery-dl][debug] requests 2.32.3 - urllib3 2.2.1
[gallery-dl][debug] Configuration Files ['%APPDATA%\\gallery-dl\\config.json']
[update][debug] Using UpdateExtractor for 'update:check'
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): api.github.com:443
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] https://api.github.com:443 "GET /repos/mikf/gallery-dl/releases/latest HTTP/1.1" 200 1952
[update][info] A new release is available: 1.27.6-dev -> 1.28.3

gallery-dl --update-check -v
[gallery-dl][debug] Version 1.27.6-dev
[gallery-dl][debug] Python 3.11.3 - Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0
[gallery-dl][debug] requests 2.32.3 - urllib3 2.2.1
[gallery-dl][debug] Configuration Files ['%APPDATA%\\gallery-dl\\config.json']
[update][debug] Using UpdateExtractor for 'update:check'
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): api.github.com:443
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] https://api.github.com:443 "GET /repos/mikf/gallery-dl/releases/latest HTTP/1.1" 200 1952
[update][info] A new release is available: 1.27.6-dev -> 1.28.3

gallery-dl --version -v
1.27.6-dev

Those three commands were executed one after the other. I don't know if the 443 error is in my end or github's.

[mikf]

Non-executable installs provide only -U/--update-check as "update" command-line options, and the allow_abbrev functionality of argparse then completes --update to the full --update-check.

If you want to update gallery-dl, use whatever method you used to install it in the first place, e.g. python -m pip install -U gallery-dl.

[ruben1PvP]

Non-executable installs provide only -U/--update-check as "update" command-line options, and the allow_abbrev functionality of argparse then completes --update to the full --update-check.

If you want to update gallery-dl, use whatever method you used to install it in the first place, e.g. python -m pip install -U gallery-dl.

Understood, wouldn't be good to make it clear either on the docs or saying it when you run the command? I've seen that yt-dlp does this when you use -U in a yt-dlp installed by pip (it tells you that you cannot run it and you need to run pip install -U yt-dlp)