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Re: Question about installing git from source

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 23, 2014, 17:43 UTC
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Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com> writes:
> install -d -m 755 '/usr/bin'
> Copying scripts to /usr/bin

As 'git grep "Copying scripts"' gives us nothing, the message is obviously not what we are giving. Perhaps you have a strange "install" in your path that does not understand "-d" is a way to tell it to make sure a directory exists (by creating one as necessary)?

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