From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 06:54:47 +0000 (-0700) Subject: INSTALL: a tip for running after building but without installing. X-Git-Tag: v1.4.3-rc1~2^2~18 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3c767a08243244b18d48315f8433ba07e435f654;p=git.git INSTALL: a tip for running after building but without installing. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index f8337e2a4..ed502de3d 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -29,6 +29,19 @@ Issues of note: has been actively developed since 1997, and people have moved over to graphical file managers. + - You can use git after building but without installing if you + wanted to. Various git commands need to find other git + commands and scripts to do their work, so you would need to + arrange a few environment variables to tell them that their + friends will be found in your built source area instead of at + their standard installation area. Something like this works + for me: + + GIT_EXEC_PATH=`pwd` + PATH=`pwd`:$PATH + PERL5LIB=`pwd`/perl/blib/lib:`pwd`/perl/blib/arch/auto/Git + export GIT_EXEC_PATH PATH PERL5LIB + - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external programs and libraries: