Updating to Git 1.6.3Edit

Created 5/7/2009, updated 5/18/2017

Notes made while updating to Git 1.6.3 on Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.6:

# working from a clone of the official upstream Git repo
git fetch
git tag -v v1.6.3

# note: "git co" is an alias that I made for "git checkout"
git co v1.6.3
make clean
make prefix=/usr/local test
sudo make prefix=/usr/local install

# inspect the changes in the Bash completion script and update it
diff -u ~/.git-completion.sh contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
cp contrib/completion/git-completion.bash ~/.git-completion.sh

# the pre-built man pages
sudo make prefix=/usr/local quick-install-man

# go back to the master branch rather than hanging around on a detached head
git co master