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From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
To: khj@cs.appstate.edu
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tracking Current Org Version
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2014 17:38:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140809153839.GC23223@chitra.no-ip.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d2c9agfy.fsf@be.cs.appstate.edu>

On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 10:25:05AM -0400, Kenneth Jacker wrote:
> Thanks, Suvayu, for your quick response!
> 
>   sa> This should help you
>   sa>
>   sa>   http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#Keeping-current
> 
> Yes, I've seen that ... in fact, have it "bookmarked" already ... the
> procedure therein explained is what I've been doing.
> 
> But I'm still unclear about "versions" ...
> 
> How do I find the "commit" that corresponds to the "org-version"
> variable value?

The version string is derived from whatever `git describe' returns (the
release_* part).  To understand the string look at the man page for
git-describe.

Look at Achim's reponse about your ELPA tarball question.

Hope this helps,

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-09 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-08 15:39 Tracking Current Org Version Kenneth Jacker
2014-08-09  6:08 ` Suvayu Ali
2014-08-09 14:25   ` Kenneth Jacker
2014-08-09 15:38     ` Suvayu Ali [this message]
2014-08-09 14:54 ` Achim Gratz

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