Re: [O] just made orgmode-7.8.02

[Nick Dokos]

Jude DaShiell <address@hidden> wrote:

> Then perhaps something more is wrong.  I downloaded orgmode-7.8.02 and 
> installed that after having run the standard gitclone command to clone 
> org-mode on this system.  I did that because the gitclone process pulled 
> version 5.23 for me and also created my git repository for me in that 
> process.  I don't know how or why that happened but it was a satellite 
> connection yesterday and not my usual cable connection.

Oy, vey: that is pretty weird.

Just delete the whole cloned repository and clone again. I just did that
and git describe says:

,----
| $ git describe
| release_7.8.02-53-g88ef5fe
`----

Nick


On Thu, 29 Dec 
> 2011, Nick Dokos wrote:
> 
> > Jude DaShiell <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > > Once that was done I figured to run make ./update in the org-7.8.02 
> > > directory and get the latest patches.  No cigar, this isn't within any 
> > > git 
> > > repository apparently on my end so couldn't be pulled by make ./update.  
> > > Do I need to edit the Makefile to clear this problem and if so how?  If 
> > > not, how do I get this version to the update capability?
> > > 
> > 
> > You need to clone the git repository:
> > 
> >     git clone git://orgmode.org/org-mode.git 
> > /path/to/your/local/org/mode/git/repository
> > 
> > before you can use the update target in the Makefile, which just does a git 
> > pull
> > before remaking:
> > 
> > ,----
> > | ...
> > | update:
> > |   git pull
> > |   ${MAKE} clean
> > |   ${MAKE} all
> > | ...
> > `----
> > 
> > Note that the /path/to/your/local/org/mode/git/repository must not exist 
> > beforehand:
> > it is created by the cloning process. And, of course, you need to have git 
> > installed.
> > 
> > Nick
> > 
> > 
> 
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