invalid version provided in download

[arekm]

Downloading 20130329 version:

[arekm@t400 test]$ wget https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/raw/2013.03.29/youtube-dl
--2013-04-01 23:22:21-- https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/raw/2013.03.29/youtube-dl
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 207.97.227.239
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|207.97.227.239|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://raw.github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/2013.03.29/youtube-dl [following]
--2013-04-01 23:22:22-- https://raw.github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/2013.03.29/youtube-dl
Resolving raw.github.com (raw.github.com)... 199.27.76.133
Connecting to raw.github.com (raw.github.com)|199.27.76.133|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 59506 (58K) [text/plain]
Saving to: 'youtube-dl'

100%[===================================================================================================================>] 59,506 259KB/s in 0.2s

2013-04-01 23:22:23 (259 KB/s) - 'youtube-dl' saved [59506/59506]

but we get some old 20130202 version:

[arekm@t400 test]$ python youtube-dl --version
2013.02.02

so two options:

1. invalid script provided at 20130329 url
2. release process doesn't contain version in version.py validation and thus allowing for such mistakes

[phihag]

Oops, we accidentally merged commit 1528d66 , which changed that file. It's only there for legacy purposes, to allow updating from older versions. (If we were to continue to check everything into version control, we'd have a multi-GB repository in a year or so)

The newest release is - as correctly noted on the download page - at http://youtube-dl.org/downloads/2013.03.29/youtube-dl . That one works correctly, at least for me.

How did you find that URL?