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Keeping this fork up to date

It's important for us to stay pretty close with the ethereum/go-ethereum releases in order for our nodes to be kept in sync. Occasionally there will be a hard fork where we must update to a certain release on a certain date. Examples from the past include the London and Berlin hard forks.

Steps to update

At the time of writing, we have a branch called statediff-develop which is based on the tagged release (v1.10.12-vdb-go-ethereum) in this repo (commit da8aef1c7). In order to do an upgrade we will be checking out a branch from statediff-develop, merging upstream geth changes, resolving conflicts, running geth repo tests, running an integration test, and opening/merging a PR.

1. From the statediff-develop branch git checkout upgrade/v1.10.x
2. Make sure you have a remote setup that points to the upstream github.com:ethereum/go-ethereum repo
3. git fetch upstream --tags
4. git merge v1.10.x
5. Resolve any conflicts that may have occurred
6. Run the tests in the repo make test
7. Run the node and make sure extract diffs can connect to it
8. Open a PR from upgrade/v1.10.x to statediff-develop and merge
9. Tag the release v1.10.x-vdb-go-ethereum

Build the image, tag it, and push to dockerhub