I know this is a noob question. I created a temp directory and ran git clone to obtain the Backdrop repository. After checking out 1.9.x branch and copying the core directory over to my backdrop directory and running update.php, I wound up with 1.9.x-dev instead of 1.9.0. I don't see a 1.9.0 branch. What am I missing?

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I'm not sure how to do it from the command line, but in the Github interface on https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop you see a "Branch 1.x" pulldown at the top of the list. When you open it, you see two tabs: "Branches" and "Tags". To switch to the 1.9.0 release you choose from the "Tags" tab.

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Olafski's picture

I'm not sure how to do it from the command line, but in the Github interface on https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop you see a "Branch 1.x" pulldown at the top of the list. When you open it, you see two tabs: "Branches" and "Tags". To switch to the 1.9.0 release you choose from the "Tags" tab.

Thank you, Olafsky. That is helpful.

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I don't see a 1.9.0 branch. What am I missing?

For Backdrop, each release (like 1.9.0) is a Tag, not a Branch. From the command line you can do git fetch --all followed by git tag to list all tags. To create a new branch from the tag, you can git checkout -b yourbranchname 1.9.0 .