On 11/17/2012 10:16 PM, Jeff King wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 02:50:31PM +0000, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > >> On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:25:21 +0600, arif <aftnix@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: <snip> > >> Install each version into its own prefix (~/git/1.8.0/, ~/git/1.7.0/ etc). > > Once you have done that, you can also symlink the binary from each into > your regular PATH (e.g., ln -s ~/git/1.8.0/bin/git ~/bin/git.v1.8) to > make it easy to switch between them. The installed exec-path is baked in > at compile-time, so it finds the correct git sub-programs properly. > > I keep a couple dozen built versions of git around like this for quick > regression testing of bugs we see on the list. > > -Peff > So what you are saying that, making a symlink for "git" is sufficient. I don't need to make symlinks for ever git subbinaries. Is that correct? -- Cheers arif -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html