From: Daniel Quinlan <danq@brtt.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:57:47 GMT
Subject: git on Solaris?
Message-ID: <200802202158.m1KLw2wM014330@rs40.luxsci.com>

I'm investigating moving to git for our development, but I'm having  
difficulty getting a functional
version on Solaris.  I've looked through a lot of web pages, and seen  
a discussion of some of
the problems a few years ago, and I see that at least some of the  
changes proposed then (moving
from shell scripts to c) have been implemented.

However, it's by no means straightforward to compile git on solaris,  
no one seems to provide
a compiled version (eg, sunfreeware.com), and I haven't found any  
clear cookbook description of how to
compile, test and install git on the solaris (10) platform.

So my questions are:

* Is there a set of instructions for Solaris somewhere that I've missed?

* Is anyone actually using git on Solaris?

  Right now, it appears that gnu make and bash are both required to  
make git, and perhaps a bunch
  of other gnu utilities.

* Once made, do the git scripts require gnu utilities to work  
properly?  I'm a bit leery of putting the
     GNU utilities ahead of the solaris ones in my path (and everyone  
elses).

Thanks,
-- danq