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Subject: RE: "fatal: Not a git repository" issued during 'make' from source code
Date:   Fri, 11 Aug 2023 16:46:10 -0400
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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.