Updating to Git 1.6.5.2Edit

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Local update

Notes made while performing the update to Git 1.6.5.2 on my local Mac OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard install.

# start off in local clone of official upstream Git repo
git fetch

# verify the tag
git tag -v v1.6.5.2

# note that "co" is a shorthand alias I have configured for "checkout"
git co v1.6.5.2

# proceed with the build
make clean
make prefix=/usr/local test
sudo make prefix=/usr/local install
sudo make prefix=/usr/local quick-install-man

# check for changes in the Bash completion script
diff -u ~/.git-completion.sh contrib/completion/git-completion.bash

# there were no changes, so no need to install the new version
[/tags/cp #cp] contrib/completion/git-completion.bash ~/.git-completion.sh

# go back to master branch rather than hanging around on detached HEAD
git co master

Remote update

I didn’t perform a remote update this time. For an example of such an update see "Updating to Git 1.6.5.1".