Re: "fatal: Not a git repository" issued during 'make' from source code

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Mun Johl <Mun.Johl@wdc.com> writes:

> Due to some "security precautions", I am unable to use 'git clone
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git' to download the source
> code.  But I can try to figure out a workaround for that if that
> is my only option at this point to successfully compile git.

If building from tarball extract fails with "not a git repository"
there is something very wrong with what you are doing, and we do not
know what it is.

Most likely cause new folks fail to build from the source is lack of
necessary development libraries and packages that need to be
installed in their build environment, but I am reasonably certain
that if a tarball extract build is failing due to their environment,
build in a clone of the source repository would fail for exactly the
same reason.