RE: "fatal: Not a git repository" issued during 'make' from source code

From: rsbecker@nexbridge.com <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Date: Aug 11, 2023, 20:18 UTC
Message-ID: <034501d9cc91$069bd360$13d37a20$@nexbridge.com>
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR04MB8289FF1D6BAC59833D922BA89C10A@SJ0PR04MB8289.namprd04.prod.outlook.com>

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

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>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. --Randall