What's the best practice to update Sage?

[kilinkis]

I use sage9 and make my customizations on top of it, that’s mostly CSS.
So no child theme.

How can I update Sage so I can have the new updates?
Or should I be using a child theme?

thanks!

[ben]

Keeping Sage Updated

This has come up a lot lately. Sage is a “starter” theme, not a theme framework or parent theme. It is designed to be modified, up to and including its core files, to build an effective and efficient custom theme for your site. If a new feature in a Sage update is absolutely vital to your site, then yes it can be challenging to merge changes from the main repository, but given how bare-bones Sage is, this is a rare occurrence. Sage doesn’t have a ton of theme functionality out of the gate; you …