Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:47:03 -0400 | | From | Jeff Garzik <> | | Subject | Re: Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers |
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Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 06:24:54PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > Things in git-land are moving at lightning speed, and usability has > > improved a lot since my post a month ago: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/26/11 > > > > > > > > 1) installing git > > > > git requires bootstrapping, since you must have git installed in order > > to check out git.git (git repo), and linux-2.6.git (kernel repo). I > > have put together a bootstrap tarball of today's git repository. > > > > Download tarball from: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/git-20050622.tar.bz2 > > <blatant self-promotion> > daily snapshots (refreshed once an hour) are available at: > http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/git-snapshots/git/ > </blatant self-promotion> > > > tarball build-deps: zlib, libcurl, libcrypto (openssl) > > > > install tarball: unpack && make && sudo make prefix=/usr/local install > > the sudo thing isn't necessary. make install by itself installs it > in ~/bin/ just fine.
Clearly this does not work if installing in /usr/local, as I and others do (and as the example shows).
> > After reading the rest of this document, come back and update your copy > > of git to the latest: > > rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/git.git > > See above, which allows you to skip this step ;)
huh? Nothing allows you to skip that step. Regardless of when you suck the tarball, even from your snapshots, the users should not skip this step.
Jeff
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