On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Paul Bowyer <pbowyer at olynet.com> wrote:
> Robert:
>
> OK, I really, really, got it figured out this time...
>
> As you might have noticed from my last three posts, I haven't used git for
> a long time, and I forgot all I ever knew about it, which wasn't much.
>
> I finally figured out that I needed to "git checkout branch-5_29" from
> within the "master" directory that I just downloaded. After I did that, I
> built it and installed it the same as before and then I ran the test suite.
>
> Notice that it's still identifying itself as Maxima version:
> "5.28.0_179_g3ddde46" even though I checked out
> the branch-5_29. The "3ddde46" tells me that it is in fact branch-5_29.
> There must be a command to change the name, but I don't know what it is.
>
>
The version is whatever git describe returns, more or less. I think if
someone made a tag for 5.29, then the version would be 5.29_nnn_g<sha>
instead.
Ray