# installation instruction

2 messages from 2007-06-22 to 2007-06-22. Participants: Sujatha Divi, Jakub Narebski.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/8684

## Sujatha Divi, 2007-06-22 21:49

Subject: installation instruction
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Hi,
I want to install and evaluate git. Can anyone please direct me as to where
I can get proper set of instructions for installation.

Thanks,
sujatha

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## Jakub Narebski, 2007-06-22 22:35

Subject: Re: installation instruction
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[Cc: git@vger.kernel.org]

Sujatha Divi wrote:

> I want to install and evaluate git. Can anyone please direct me as to where
> I can get proper set of instructions for installation.

If you want to use newer version of git than in your distribution, and
RPMS and DEBs won't install because of dependencies (I for example --rebuild
RPM from SRPM, and install (re)build RPMs), there is [almost] always file
named INSTALL in the main directory.

See it also at:
  http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git?a=blob;f=INSTALL
  http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=blob;f=INSTALL

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

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