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Re: git --version

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PCPaolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Date
May 31, 2006, 19:32 UTC
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On 5/31/06, Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 5/31/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 31 May 2006, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
> > >
> > > Tried with:
> > > make clean
> > > make && sudo make install
> > > [...]
> > > paolo@Italia:~/git$ git --version
> > > git version 1.3.GIT
> > > paolo@Italia:~/git$ ./GIT-VERSION-GEN
> > > GIT_VERSION = 1.3.3.g2186
> >
> > What does
> >
> >         git describe
>
> paolo@Italia:~/git$ git describe
> v1.3.3-g2186d56
>
> >         ./git --version
>
> paolo@Italia:~/git$ ./git --version
> git version 1.3.3.g2186
>
> Doh..
>
> >         which git
>
> paolo@Italia:~/git$ which git
> /home/paolo/bin/git
>

Ok... make && make install

Now I get: paolo@Italia:~$ git --version git version 1.3.3.g2186

That is correct.

But I'm still wondering why doing sudo make install caused that problem, git was correcly installed in /home/paolo/git

Really puzzled.
Ciao,
-- 
Paolo
http://paolociarrocchi.googlepages.com
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