pulling git -- version confusion

I did a git pull today

When I compile it git --version gives git version 1.6.3.3.334.g916e1

Whereas latest stable shown on http://git-scm.com/ is 1.6.5.2.

Note:

git branch shows a star before master

git tag contains v1.6.5.2 as well as v1.6.3.3

When I checkout branch next git version becomes 1.6.0.rc1.194.g9e4e

Can someone explain whats happening or am I missing something basic?

Heya,

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 07:14, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:

Try either: $ git checkout master $ git reset --hard origin/master

or: $ git checkout next $ git reset --hard origin/next

Followed by: $ make $ ./git --version

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:

Gives me fatal: ambiguous argument 'origin/master': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions

Likewise here

Heya,

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 08:45, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:

Well, as what remote do you have upstream configured?

What is the output of $ git config -l

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:

gives me

core.safecrlf=true user.email=<my email> user.name=<my name> core.repositoryformatversion=0 core.filemode=true gui.geometry=885x450+0+27 207 192

So theres no remote? But .git/remotes/origin has

URL: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
Pull: refs/heads/master:refs/heads/origin
Pull: refs/heads/maint:refs/heads/maint
Pull: refs/heads/next:refs/heads/next
Pull: refs/heads/html:refs/heads/html
Pull: refs/heads/pu:refs/heads/pu
Pull: refs/heads/todo:refs/heads/todo
Pull: refs/heads/man:refs/heads/man

Also [I just tried this] if I make a fresh repo directly and then do a git pull it gives a fatal: where do you want to fetch from

But with the git repo pull (seems to be) pulling all sorts of stuff and not erroring out.

Heya,

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 14:24, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:

Ick, how about switching to: $ git remote add origin"git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git"

And then you can do what I said earlier?

Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

That's a layout that was default before 1.5.0, I think. 3 years is an eon in git timescale.

People giving advice based on modern git experience would say things like "origin/master", but in your layout that ref that keeps track of where the 'master' branch at the remote repository is is not called 'origin/master', but simply 'origin'.

So instead of

that Sverre gave you, in your repository you would do:

    $ git checkout master
    $ git reset --hard origin