Re: [Help-bash] How to download the latest bash?

[Greg Wooledge]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:25:18PM +1000, Matthew Cengia wrote:
> On 2013-06-25 14:06, Geir Hauge wrote:
> [...]
> > After cloning it checks out the master branch by default, which contains
> > the source code for the latest stable release; currently 4.2.45. To build
> > the devel version, you have to specifically checkout the devel branch
> > first.
> > 
> > git checkout devel
> 
> Apparently there *is* no other branch in that repo. This raises another
> question: Where *is* development done? Is there a public repo? Have I
> missed something obvious?

I'm just a newbie at Git, so I might be wrong, but....

"git branch -a" shows:

* master
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/bash-4.3-testing
  remotes/origin/devel
  remotes/origin/direxpand
  remotes/origin/import-tars
  remotes/origin/master

"git checkout devel" appeared to create a new local branch called "devel".
It did NOT switch to "remotes/origin/devel".

address@hidden:~/bash-git$ git checkout devel
Branch devel set up to track remote branch devel from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'devel'
address@hidden:~/bash-git$ git branch -a
* devel
  master
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/bash-4.3-testing
  remotes/origin/devel
  remotes/origin/direxpand
  remotes/origin/import-tars
  remotes/origin/master

I switched back to master, and then deleted the "devel" branch that it
had created.  I think.