From a31cd220ee31010e97a5a92edb96189e26fc943b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: aus-social <42644106+aus-social@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 02:19:00 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Follow production best practice (#679)

I've deployed from master and didn't checkout a stable release tag....
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 Running-Mastodon/Docker-Guide.md | 11 ++++++++---
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diff --git a/Running-Mastodon/Docker-Guide.md b/Running-Mastodon/Docker-Guide.md
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@@ -13,9 +13,14 @@ The project now includes a `Dockerfile` and a `docker-compose.yml` file (which r
 ## Setting up
 
 Clone Mastodon's repository.
-
-    git clone https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon
-    cd mastodon
+    
+    # Clone mastodon to ~/live directory
+    git clone https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon.git live
+    # Change directory to ~/live
+    cd ~/live
+    # Checkout to the latest stable branch
+    git checkout $(git tag -l | grep -v 'rc[0-9]*$' | sort -V | tail -n 1)
+    
 
 Review the settings in `docker-compose.yml`. Note that it is **not default** to store the postgresql database and redis databases in a persistent storage location. If you plan on running your instance in production, you **must** uncomment the [`volumes` directive](https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/972f6bc861affd9bc40181492833108f905a04b6/docker-compose.yml#L7-L16) in `docker-compose.yml`.