On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 09:25:27PM -0800, Abscissa wrote:
> Well that's strange, it finished "upgrading", but now git is still just
> reporting 1.7.0.4, which is *exactly* the same version it said before. The
> git-svn package should already be up-to-date because I just installed it 
> today. So I don't know what's up with that.

Nothing odd about that. apt-get upgrade means "upgrade my system". If
you want to get a newer version of package X, you do apt-get install X
and it will install the latest version of that package.

Your OS seems ancient, you might be better off installing from source.

   cmn