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!!! 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 | http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer] on [Google code | http://code.google.com].


!!! 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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[CategoryArchived] - [Computing | CategoryArchived.Computing] - [Git | CategoryArchived.Computing.SCM.Git] - [Mac | CategoryArchived.Computing.Mac] - [Linux Shell | CategoryArchived.Computing.Linux.Shell] - [BSD | CategoryArchived.Computing.BSD]