Re: how to git gnumeric

[Marlon Nelson <marlon nelson gmail com>]

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

i can't find the documentation on how to use it

the section "Using Tags" in http://live.gnome.org/Git/Developers is
unhelpful, only noting that maintainers use tags to mark releases, and
not showing how tags can be used

i don't know if i have to clone, pull, checkout, or fetch the
release...  i've tried various combinations

for instance, i've tried the following:
$ git clone -n git://git.gnome.org/gnumeric
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/marlon/gnome-dev/gnumeric/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 164330, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (24273/24273), done.
remote: Total 164330 (delta 139555), reused 163265 (delta 138753)
Receiving objects: 100% (164330/164330), 118.08 MiB | 188 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (139555/139555), done.
$ cd gnumeric
$ git checkout GNUMERIC_1_9_6
error: Entry 'ChangeLog' would be overwritten by merge. Cannot merge.
$

i guess i'm supposed to read all the man pages and become a git
expert, in order to be able to grab the latest release to compile

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