Giovanni Ridolfi writes:
> 1   I downloaded from http://orgmode.org/w/org-mode.git
>     the last git snapshot (c75120aa71257604....)

Jason, it would be quite useful if the Git snapshots would include both
org-install.el and org-version.el — is it perhaps possible to sneak a
"make autoloads" into the script that creates those?

Bastien, here's a patch that allows to override the version strings more
easily.  You'd then eval this form:

(let ((org-fake-release "7.8.11")
      (org-fake-git-version "7.8.11-fake"))
  (org-make-autoloads))

either from the scratch buffer or the command line.  I'll update org
hacks with the instructions when you have installed the patch.