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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> GIT 0.99.7b
[...]
> Or, if you use git already:
> 
> 	{http,rsync}://kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/

I did it that way and now I see this:

$git --version
git version 0.99.7

This is a bit confusing.  Did I upgrade or downgrade?
Maybe the version string should contain the same kind
of hexadecimal string that Linus is appending to his
kernel version?