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Subject: Re: cg-clone produces "___" file and no working tree
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:23:35 -0700
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

> Zack Brown <zbrown@tumblerings.org> writes:
>
>> Not true. I went into the git source directory, and ran "make". Nothing more.
>
> Ah, I misunderstood.  You are trying to run it _without_
> installing it.
>
> Well, then probably you do not have templates installed
> anywhere, especially not where git-init-db expects them to be
> found.

(sorry for the short message sent unfinished by mistake).

Running things without installing is somewhat tricky, but test
framework needs to do that, so there are some things you would
need to do.

 - "git init-db" takes --template argument; in the source area
   before installing, they are built in templates/blt/.

 - "git" and programs that need to invoke other git programs
   (e.g. git-send-pack) expects things to be found in gitexecdir
   you set when you build.  If you are not installing, you need
   to override that with GIT_EXEC_PATH environment variable.

There might be other things, but you should be able to find them
from what t/Makefile and t/test-lib.sh do.

Having said that, honestly I would not recommend "runnning
without installing" unless you know what you are doing ;-).