From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:23:32 GMT
Subject: Re: First time compiling source
Message-ID: <20080115212332.GD3213@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <c0f2d4110801151234i2292ad2aw48e38f4f4fcb5ee7@mail.gmail.com>

Chris Ortman, Tue, Jan 15, 2008 21:34:12 +0100:
> Up until today I've always run git off whatever debs come with ubuntu.
> But if I'm going to try to do some work I figured I should be
> compiling from source.
> 
> To compile I did
> git co -b current v1.5.3.8
> make
> make install
> 
> then to check
> which git
> /home/chrisortman/bin/git
> as expected
> 
> however git --version still reports 1.5.2.5
> 
> What did I miss?

The git in /usr/bin is stuck in hashed paths of your shell?
For instance, bash remembers all the programs it managed to exec.