Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:11:01 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCH] TTY/serial patches for 3.3-rc1 |
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On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 04:27:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote: > > > > Or I can spend the time to get the new version of git installed. > > Wrestling with my scripts or rpm, I don't know which is worse... > > Why do either? > > The sane way to do things is to just > > cd > mkdir src > cd src > git clone git://github.com/gitster/git > cd git > make > make install > > all as a regular user. It will install in your $(HOME)/bin, so just > put that first in the path. No need to fight rpm, no need to fight > your scripts, you should be pretty much all done.
Nice, for some reason I thought it would do the horrible /usr/local/ thing, and get all messed up with the installed version.
Ok, now done, so much for fighting with rpm, thanks, that made my day.
greg k-h
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