From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 21:13:47 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use the template mechanism to set up refs/ hierarchy as well. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v7jf1xw90.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Hi, On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin 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