From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:40:03 -0400 Message-ID: <20050622224003.GA21298@redhat.com> References: <42B9E536.60704@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linux Kernel , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 23 00:39:26 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlDsF-0006Y1-Eo for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:39:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262574AbVFVWoI (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:44:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262580AbVFVWoI (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:44:08 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:5316 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262464AbVFVWkl (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:40:41 -0400 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5MMe8ib020340; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:40:08 -0400 Received: from devserv.devel.redhat.com (devserv.devel.redhat.com [172.16.58.1]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j5MMe3u19938; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:40:03 -0400 Received: from devserv.devel.redhat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by devserv.devel.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5MMe3re028415; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:40:03 -0400 Received: (from davej@localhost) by devserv.devel.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j5MMe3Nt028413; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:40:03 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: devserv.devel.redhat.com: davej set sender to davej@redhat.com using -f To: Jeff Garzik Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel , Git Mailing List Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42B9E536.60704@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org 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 daily snapshots (refreshed once an hour) are available at: http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/git-snapshots/git/ > 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. > 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 ;) Dave