I run Armbian inside VMware VM.

 

As I understand the compile.sh script will not auto-update Armbian.

 

What is the right procedure to update Armbian in this case? Just run git pull from $SRC? Could compile.sh script accomodate this scenario?

Simply run git pull in your build directory and it will fetch the latest changes from Github.

Will work only if you cloned the repository before instead of simply downloading the master.zip

Yes, I have cloned the repository. Thank you for confirmation!

 

Anyway it would be nice to have it working in compile.sh.

That would be bad if you do local changes

Keep in mind building from trunk is meant to be used from developers and experienced users. These builds are usully unsupported anyways. In case of doubt use an officially provided image.