RE: "fatal: Not a git repository" issued during 'make' from source code

From: Mun Johl <mun.johl@wdc.com>
Date: Aug 11, 2023, 21:15 UTC
Message-ID: <SJ0PR04MB82892A7EB350531DBE4701BA9C10A@SJ0PR04MB8289.namprd04.prod.outlook.com>
In-Reply-To: <034d01d9cc94$df9db0e0$9ed912a0$@nexbridge.com>

Hi Junio and rsbecker,

Please see my comments below.

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> On Friday, August 11, 2023 4:39 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >Subject: Re: "fatal: Not a git repository" issued during 'make' from source
> code
> >
> ><rsbecker@nexbridge.com> writes:
> >
> >> On Friday, August 11, 2023 3:57 PM, Mun Johl wrote:
> >>>I am new to git and am trying to compile git-2.41.0 on RHEL7.  When I run
> >> 'make
> >>>prefix=/usr/local all doc', I get the following error:
> >>>
> >>>fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /tools)
> >>>
> >>>Which I infer means that I need to do the build within a git repo.  Is
> that
> >> correct?  Or
> >>>have I missed some basic step in the build process?
> >>
> >> Yes, you must be in the cloned git repository in order to run the build.
> >
> >Shouldn't we be able to build out of a tarball?
> 
> I don't get the impression he started with a tarball, so subsequently sent
> the doc ref for that. Using just "make" is not sufficient from a tarball.[Mun]

[Mun] Thank you both for the information you have provided!  It turns out I did in fact start from the tar-ball "git-2.41.0.tar.xz" which I downloaded from https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ .  And then I ran the 'make' command.  The process went something like this (basically identical to what Junio documented):

$ tar xf git-2.41.0.tar.xz $ cd git-2.41.0 $ make prefix=/usr/local all doc

And with the above 'make' command I got the fatal error.

I consulted the Getting-Started-Installing-Git web page that rsbecker referenced, and it basically matches the above--except it uses the 'make configure' process.  So I tried that method as well, but when I got to the 'make all doc info' step, I again got the same fatal error.

Due to some "security precautions", I am unable to use 'git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git' to download the source code.  But I can try to figure out a workaround for that if that is my only option at this point to successfully compile git.

Thank you and regards,

-- 
Mun