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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 11, 2023, 20:39 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqr0o9qpon.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <034501d9cc91$069bd360$13d37a20$@nexbridge.com>

<rsbecker@nexbridge.com> writes:

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> 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?