I've now got the maintenance branch, thanks for the pointers folks.

This is what I've done -
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
cd ~/git/org-mode-master
git checkout maint
git pull
make autoloads
make
make doc
sudo make install
cd ~
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I know from watching it when its building that I have version
8.2.7c. But when I've reloaded org using the menu items = org ->
refresh/reload -> reload org after update, and then do M-x org-version
it shows
╭────
│Org-mode version 8.2.6 (release_8.2.6-1 @ /usr/local/share/emacs/24.3.92/lisp/org/)
╰────
 I have this line in my 'init.el'
 --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
  (setq load-path (cons "/home/boudiccas/git/org-mode-master" load-path))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

So how do I get it to only use the one from my init.el please? I've
never run into this problem before, and although I do remember hearing
about it, I can't recall the solution and there is no mention of it in
my "emacsinstructions.org" which is my repository for how to do various
things.

Thanks
Sharon.
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