From: Zack Brown <zbrown@tumblerings.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:34:20 GMT
Subject: Re: cg-clone produces "___" file and no working tree
Message-ID: <20060420213420.GD3653@tumblerings.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vodywxago.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

> honestly I would not recommend "runnning
> without installing" unless you know what you are doing ;-).

OK, you're right, the problem was that I was not doing a proper install. I
followed the directions and it worked. Thanks!

Be well,
Zack

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 01:23:35PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
> 
> > Zack Brown <zbrown@tumblerings.org> writes:
> >
> >> Not true. I went into the git source directory, and ran "make". Nothing more.
> >
> > Ah, I misunderstood.  You are trying to run it _without_
> > installing it.
> >
> > Well, then probably you do not have templates installed
> > anywhere, especially not where git-init-db expects them to be
> > found.
> 
> (sorry for the short message sent unfinished by mistake).
> 
> Running things without installing is somewhat tricky, but test
> framework needs to do that, so there are some things you would
> need to do.
> 
>  - "git init-db" takes --template argument; in the source area
>    before installing, they are built in templates/blt/.
> 
>  - "git" and programs that need to invoke other git programs
>    (e.g. git-send-pack) expects things to be found in gitexecdir
>    you set when you build.  If you are not installing, you need
>    to override that with GIT_EXEC_PATH environment variable.
> 
> There might be other things, but you should be able to find them
> from what t/Makefile and t/test-lib.sh do.
> 
> Having said that, honestly I would not recommend "runnning
> without installing" unless you know what you are doing ;-).
> 

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