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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Gary Yang <garyyang6@yahoo.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to make public repository GIT_DIR=my-git.git git-init Command not found.
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:19:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081118231925.GW2932@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <138223.4849.qm@web37905.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Gary Yang <garyyang6@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to make a public repository. I followed the instructions in gitcore-tutorial. I typed "GIT_DIR=my-git.git git init" per instruction. But, I got command not found. I do not think this is the correct command. How should I do? I use C-Shell.
> 
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/intrepid/man7/gitcore-tutorial.html
> 
> %mkdir my-git.git
> %GIT_DIR=my-git.git git init
> 
> GIT_DIR=my-git.git: Command not found.

Instead you can do:

  $ git --git-dir=my-git.git init

The --git-dir option does the same thing that GIT_DIR= was doing
in a Bourne shell.

-- 
Shawn.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-18 23:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-18 23:16 How to make public repository GIT_DIR=my-git.git git-init Command not found Gary Yang
2008-11-18 23:19 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2008-11-19  1:21   ` Gary Yang
2008-11-19  1:28     ` Gary Yang
2008-11-19  1:35       ` Gary Yang
2008-11-19 13:38 ` Alex Riesen

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