From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 06:54:47 GMT Subject: Re: [POLL] Who likes running Git without make install? Message-ID: <7vslljrxe0.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20060701235906.GE29115@pasky.or.cz> Petr Baudis writes: > Well, yes, it is ugly, but it was really cool that we could have used > Git without installing it anywhere. > > But perhaps that's just me refusing to break his old ways of doing > things. Does anyone else care about it? (And why?) I do not think you need to break your old ways. Perhaps a patch like this might help. -- >8 -- INSTALL: a tip for running after building but without installing. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index f8337e2..ed502de 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -29,6 +29,19 @@ Issues of note: has been actively developed since 1997, and people have moved over to graphical file managers. + - You can use git after building but without installing if you + wanted to. Various git commands need to find other git + commands and scripts to do their work, so you would need to + arrange a few environment variables to tell them that their + friends will be found in your built source area instead of at + their standard installation area. Something like this works + for me: + + GIT_EXEC_PATH=`pwd` + PATH=`pwd`:$PATH + PERL5LIB=`pwd`/perl/blib/lib:`pwd`/perl/blib/arch/auto/Git + export GIT_EXEC_PATH PATH PERL5LIB + - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external programs and libraries: