On Friday, August 11, 2023 4:39 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >Subject: Re: "fatal: Not a git repository" issued during 'make' from source code > ><rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Friday, August 11, 2023 3:57 PM, Mun Johl wrote: >>>I am new to git and am trying to compile git-2.41.0 on RHEL7. When I run >> 'make >>>prefix=/usr/local all doc', I get the following error: >>> >>>fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /tools) >>> >>>Which I infer means that I need to do the build within a git repo. Is that >> correct? Or >>>have I missed some basic step in the build process? >> >> Yes, you must be in the cloned git repository in order to run the build. > >Shouldn't we be able to build out of a tarball? I don't get the impression he started with a tarball, so subsequently sent the doc ref for that. Using just "make" is not sufficient from a tarball.
