Linux#

Download #

If you do not already have git, go to http://git-scm.org to download.

If you do have git,

$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git

or

$ git clone http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git

or

$ git clone git://github.com/git/git.git

if you're behind a firewall.

Extract#

If you downloaded the tarball -

$ tar xvfz git-1.7.5.1.tar.gz

Checkout#

If you cloned the code with git, you'll want to go checkout a tag. Find the latest release and run checkout.

$ git tag
$ git checkout v1.7.5.1

Install Dependencies

$ sudo apt-get build-dep git-core

Configure and Build

If you cloned git -

$ autoconf

# continue w/ tarball instructions

If you downloaded the tarball -

# for local installation
$ ./configure --prefix=/home/username/apps/git

# for system-wide installation
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local

$ make all doc
$ sudo make install install-doc install-html

Mac#

By far the easiest thing to do is simply get it from from the git-osx-installer project on Google code.

BSD#

Dependencies#

xmlto#

$ cd /usr/ports/textproc/xmlto
$ sudo make install clean

asciidoc#

Get AsciiDoc from http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/ and follow the installation directions. At the time of this writing it's -

# assuming ~/bin is in your path

$ hg clone -r 8.6.4 https://asciidoc.googlecode.com/hg/ asciidoc-8.6.4
$ cd asciidoc-8.6.4
$ ln -s asciidoc.py ~/bin/asciidoc
$ ln -s a2x.py ~/bin/a2x

Git#

Ports#

$ cd /usr/ports/devel/git
$ make install clean

Tarball#

The latest version of the source is available at http://git-scm.com/.

$ wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.7.5.1.tar.bz2
$ tar -xvfj git-1.7.5.1.tar.bz2
$ cd git-1.7.5.1

To install system-wide

$ ./configure
$ gmake
$ sudo gmake install

To install for just yourself

$ ./configure --prefix=/home/username/local
$ gmake
$ gmake install

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