From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:47:03 -0400 Message-ID: <42B9EA67.1040407@pobox.com> References: <42B9E536.60704@pobox.com> <20050622224003.GA21298@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linux Kernel , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 23 00:41:19 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlDuI-0006zS-BP for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:41:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262519AbVFVWrX (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:47:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262467AbVFVWrX (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:47:23 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:60592 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261175AbVFVWrI (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:47:08 -0400 Received: from cpe-065-184-065-144.nc.res.rr.com ([65.184.65.144] helo=[10.10.10.88]) by mail.dvmed.net with esmtpsa (Exim 4.51 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1DlDzt-0002qM-5D; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:47:07 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Dave Jones In-Reply-To: <20050622224003.GA21298@redhat.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Dave Jones wrote: > 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. Clearly this does not work if installing in /usr/local, as I and others do (and as the example shows). > > 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 ;) huh? Nothing allows you to skip that step. Regardless of when you suck the tarball, even from your snapshots, the users should not skip this step. Jeff