From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262467AbVFVW4L (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:56:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262570AbVFVWxK (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:53:10 -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 Message-ID: <42B9EA67.1040407@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:47:03 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Jones CC: Linux Kernel , Git Mailing List Subject: Re: Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers References: <42B9E536.60704@pobox.com> <20050622224003.GA21298@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20050622224003.GA21298@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@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