Re: git --version

From: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Date: May 31, 2006, 19:26 UTC
Message-ID: <4d8e3fd30605311226p4a0efab5qcebe102e03d458b6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605311222010.24646@g5.osdl.org>

On 5/31/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

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> On Wed, 31 May 2006, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
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> > install git gitk '/home/paolo/bin'
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> Why are you doing a "sudo" when you install in your own ~/bin (the default
> for git).

Good question :-) Just because I'm used to do that but you are absolutelly right saying that is wrong.

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> The whole point of installing in ~/bin is to not need any elevated
> priorities.
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> I get the feeling that you might have installed something in /usr/bin/ or
> /usr/local/bin earlier, and that they are before ~/bin in your PATH.

I don't think so since: paolo@Italia:~/git$ which git /home/paolo/bin/git

But I'll do a make && make install in a minute.

Thanks!

Ciao,

-- 
Paolo
http://paolociarrocchi.googlepages.com