From: Brian Gernhardt Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:49:19 GMT Subject: Installing without rebuilding Message-ID: <8B92E213-17DB-4E83-B045-01CE0E7D26CB@silverinsanity.com> Git has a very clever Makefile. Sometimes its a little overly clever. 1) I use stow to manage my /usr/local directory. With many other programs I am able to build with a prefix of /usr/local and install with a prefix of /usr/local/stow/$program. Git detects a change in the build variables and recompiles pretty much everything. 2) If I remove the old copy of git before installing the new, git will notice this and again start a (smaller) recompile because the GIT- VERSION-FILE file changes from something detailed like "1.5.3.5.622.g6fd7a" to "1.5.3.GIT". Is there a way to tell git to be a bit less clever and just install the already compiled program? If not, would changing the Makefile to read something like the following be accepted? ----- 8< ----- install: all install-dumb install-dumb: # No rebuild! # Current install process ----- 8< ----- ~~ Brian