You need to git clone the master branch, build emacs and do M-x
emacs-version in that.

On Sat, Jan 14, 2017, 1:04 PM Stefan Merten <stefan@merten-home.de> wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> 18 minutes ago Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> > The Emacs version number tells you what to use.
> >>
> >> Where do I find it?
> >
> > M-x emacs-version RET
>
> Results in 24.5.1 for me :-) . According to your information the next
> version is then 24.6...
>
> Seriously: Can you *please* give me some *useful* information on how
> to determine the next Emacs release in the development tree? May be
> this can be obtained by some git command?
>
>
>                                                 Grüße
>
>                                                 Stefan
>
> --

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