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 [off-list ref] wrote:

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

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

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

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

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

Heya,

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 08:45, Rustom Mody [off-list ref] wrote:

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

Well, as what remote do you have upstream configured?

What is the output of
$ git config -l

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Sverre Rabbelier [off-list ref] wrote:

Heya,

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 07:14, Rustom Mody [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

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

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

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

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

Likewise here

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

--
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Sverre Rabbelier [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 08:45, Rustom Mody [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

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

Well, as what remote do you have upstream configured?

What is the output of
$ git config -l

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 [off-list ref] wrote:

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

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?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier