Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> writes:
> Well, yes, it is ugly, but it was really cool that we could have used
> Git without installing it anywhere.
>
> But perhaps that's just me refusing to break his old ways of doing
> things. Does anyone else care about it? (And why?)
I do not think you need to break your old ways. Perhaps a patch
like this might help.
-- >8 --
INSTALL: a tip for running after building but without installing.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx>
---
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index f8337e2..ed502de 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -29,6 +29,19 @@ Issues of note:
has been actively developed since 1997, and people have moved over to
graphical file managers.
+ - You can use git after building but without installing if you
+ wanted to. Various git commands need to find other git
+ commands and scripts to do their work, so you would need to
+ arrange a few environment variables to tell them that their
+ friends will be found in your built source area instead of at
+ their standard installation area. Something like this works
+ for me:
+
+ GIT_EXEC_PATH=`pwd`
+ PATH=`pwd`:$PATH
+ PERL5LIB=`pwd`/perl/blib/lib:`pwd`/perl/blib/arch/auto/Git
+ export GIT_EXEC_PATH PATH PERL5LIB
+
- Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external
programs and libraries:
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