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Question about installing git from source

From
Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 23, 2014, 08:55 UTC
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Hello All,
Trying to install git from source, executing:

make configure ./configure --prefix=/usr make --prefix=/usr all sudo make install DISTDIR=/usr

And getting following:

install -d -m 755 '/usr/usr/bin' Copying scripts to /usr/bin cp: omitting directory ‘autom4te.cache’ cp: omitting directory ‘bin-wrappers’ cp: omitting directory ‘block-sha1’ cp: omitting directory ‘builtin’ cp: omitting directory ‘compat’ cp: omitting directory ‘contrib’ cp: omitting directory ‘Documentation’ cp: omitting directory ‘ewah’ cp: omitting directory ‘git-gui’ cp: omitting directory ‘gitk-git’ cp: omitting directory ‘gitweb’ cp: omitting directory ‘mergetools’ cp: omitting directory ‘perl’ cp: omitting directory ‘po’ cp: omitting directory ‘ppc’ cp: omitting directory ‘t’ cp: omitting directory ‘templates’ cp: omitting directory ‘vcs-svn’ cp: omitting directory ‘xdiff’ Done

What's problem can be here?
Thank you.
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