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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,

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Suvayu

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