Re: [PATCH] Use the template mechanism to set up refs/ hierarchy as well.

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 4, 2005, 21:13 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0508042311370.24861@wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v7jf1xw90.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> I'd like to not being forced to install git. Scenario: I have an SSH
>> account on a remote machine. I am not root there, but I'd like to
>> synchronize my work with git. I can not install git.
>
> Sorry, but now you completely lost me.  You want git, you are
> not root, you cannot install git system wide, so you run git
> installed in your $HOME/bin somewhere instead.  I think I am
> following you correctly up to this point.
>
> But if that is the case, I do not see where your objections to
> the template directory installed somewhere under $HOME/etc comes
> from, which is what the default Makefile does, or at least
> attempts to.

Sorry, I am so used to not installing in my home because of small quotas :-(

Anyway, my usual setup is that I check git out from my private branch, add that directory to my path, and every once in a while do a "git pull origin && make test". Right now, it works.

Ciao, Dscho