Re: how to git gnumeric

[Oliver Burnett-Hall <olly burnett-hall co uk>]

On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 14:20 -0400, Marlon Nelson wrote:
> i give up... i'm able to clone gnumeric and pull down the latest code,
> but i have been unable to figure out how to get the latest official
> release
> 
> i want to build release 1.9.6
> 
> i think doing so involves using a tag...  i found one that looks like
> what i need: GNUMERIC_1_9_6

<snip>

> $ git checkout GNUMERIC_1_9_6
> error: Entry 'ChangeLog' would be overwritten by merge. Cannot merge.

That's the right command.  If you haven't made any changes to Changelog
that you need to keep then just add an -f flag and it should work.

- olly