RE: "fatal: Not a git repository" issued during 'make' from source code

[<rsbecker@nexbridge.com>]

Rather than asking one line at a time, can you provide the complete log,
input and output of the attempted operation, including the download and tar?
Thanks,
Randall

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mun Johl <Mun.Johl@wdc.com>
>Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2023 1:33 AM
>To: rsbecker@nexbridge.com; 'Junio C Hamano' <gitster@pobox.com>
>Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
>Subject: RE: "fatal: Not a git repository" issued during 'make' from source
code
>
>Hi rsbecker,
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rsbecker@nexbridge.com <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
>> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2023 2:46 PM
>> To: Mun Johl <Mun.Johl@wdc.com>; 'Junio C Hamano' <gitster@pobox.com>
>> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
>> Subject: RE: "fatal: Not a git repository" issued during 'make' from
>> source code
>>
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>> On Friday, August 11, 2023 5:15 PM, Mon Johl wrote:
>> >> On Friday, August 11, 2023 4:39 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> >> >Subject: Re: "fatal: Not a git repository" issued during 'make'
>> >> >from source
>> >> code
>> >> >
>> >> ><rsbecker@nexbridge.com> writes:
>> >> >
>> >> >> On Friday, August 11, 2023 3:57 PM, Mun Johl wrote:
>> >> >>>I am new to git and am trying to compile git-2.41.0 on RHEL7.
>> >> >>>When I run
>> >> >> 'make
>> >> >>>prefix=/usr/local all doc', I get the following error:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point
>> >> >>>/tools)
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>Which I infer means that I need to do the build within a git repo.
>> >> >>>Is
>> >> that
>> >> >> correct?  Or
>> >> >>>have I missed some basic step in the build process?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Yes, you must be in the cloned git repository in order to run
>> >> >> the
>> build.
>> >> >
>> >> >Shouldn't we be able to build out of a tarball?
>> >>
>> >> I don't get the impression he started with a tarball, so
>> >> subsequently sent the doc ref for that. Using just "make" is not
>> >> sufficient from a tarball.[Mun]
>> >
>> >[Mun] Thank you both for the information you have provided!  It turns
>> >out I
>> did in fact
>> >start from the tar-ball "git-2.41.0.tar.xz" which I downloaded from
>> >https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ .  And then I
>> >ran the
>> 'make'
>> >command.  The process went something like this (basically identical
>> >to what
>> Junio
>> >documented):
>> >
>> >$ tar xf git-2.41.0.tar.xz
>> >$ cd git-2.41.0
>> >$ make prefix=/usr/local all doc
>> >
>> >And with the above 'make' command I got the fatal error.
>> >
>> >I consulted the Getting-Started-Installing-Git web page that rsbecker
>> referenced, and
>> >it basically matches the above--except it uses the 'make configure'
>> process.  So I tried
>> >that method as well, but when I got to the 'make all doc info' step,
>> >I
>> again got the
>> >same fatal error.
>> >
>> >Due to some "security precautions", I am unable to use 'git clone
>> >https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git' to download the source code.
>> But I can try
>> >to figure out a workaround for that if that is my only option at this
>> >point
>> to
>> >successfully compile git.
>>
>> Did you run 'make configure' before using 'make prefix=/usr/local all
doc' ?
>
>[Mun] My apologies for not providing that data previously: Yes, I did run
'make
>configure' prior to 'make prefix=/usr/local all doc'.
>
>Regards,
>
>--
>Mun