Should the install guide tell people to run apt update & apt upgrade first?

My money is on the additional git pull is unnecessary, because of the code here:

which seems to check the local version, updates and restarts the launcher if out of date (and a bunch of other things).

Therefore only this should be necessary on subsequent rebuilds:

cd /var/discourse
./launcher rebuild app

without the redundant git pull.

(NB: always good to dive into the source code so you can be more sure).
(NB#2: have deleted my post above which just added to the confusion).

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