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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 11, 2023, 20:44 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqmsyxqpg7.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqr0o9qpon.fsf@gitster.g>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> <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?

In other words,

    $ mkdir -p /var/tmp/x
    $ cd /var/tmp/x
    $ wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/testing/git-2.42.0.rc1.tar.xz
    $ tar xf git-2.42.0.rc1.tar.xz
    $ cd git-2.42.0.rc1
    $ make prefix=/var/tmp/local all doc
    $ sudo make prefix=/var/tmp/local install

is what I just did to make sure that a build from our tarball extract does not require a git repository (it would be a bug to require one, as it would make it impossible to bootstrap).