Lars Sadau <lars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hallo, > > i'm a brand-new git user. Just one minute ago I wanted to install git in > my home directory. The INSTALL file says type simply "make install", but > the makefile does a global installation. I was going to write: Either run ./configure --prefix=$HOME/wherever/you/want or edit the prefix variable in config.mak. but then realized that prefix is set to $(HOME) by default. Are you sure you didn't edit the Makefile or run any sort of ./configure before "make install" ? -- Matthieu -- 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