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 -- Cheers, Ralph.