Hi Howard, > Not a git user, so the problem could be on my end as I'm not getting a > version that matches 1.7.1 (or newer). ... > git clone -b master git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/nmh.git
That looks right to me. You've asked for the ‘master’ branch where
development takes place.
To show branches with the current one highlighted:
git branch
To describe the commit which is checked out:
git describe --long --tags --candidates=1000
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Cheers, Ralph.
