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Re: Git 2.15.0 on OSX 10.12.6: gui multi-select stage

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jan 5, 2018, 21:10 UTC
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Hi Matthew,
On Fri, 5 Jan 2018, Matthew Orres wrote:
> I'd be glad to give it a try - but am unfamiliar with how portable a
> manual build of Git can be used along side the version I have
> installed via Homebrew - do I just use full paths to reference the
> compiled executable from within my repository folder?

No. If you want to avoid installing Git, and instead want to run it in-place after building it, you have to use --exec-path, like so:

$HOME/my-git-checkout/git --exec-path=$HOME/my-git-checkout gui

Ciao, Johannes

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