On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 05:34:00PM +0000, Philip Oakley wrote: > I have recently got a spare laptop and installed Linux (I've been on > Windows since 3.1, and stuff before that) , and I'm trying to get my > head around some of the Git install issues on Linux. In particular > how to compile my own version of Git, separate from the installed > version. > > I've got Ubuntu > Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS > Release: 12.04 > Codename: precise
[...] Unless you *really* need the latest (i.e. tip of the "master") Git, the best bet is to either stick with what's provided by the OS or install a more fresh (usually the latest upstream release) using the so-called backports. This has been discussed here recently, please see [1]. Also, as you've probably inferred from the thread, if you want both the "stock" installation of Git (provided by the OS) to coexist with your manually-built version, it's best to configure the build in such a way that `make install` installs everything under a single directory (typically under your home directory) -- this eases maintenance as you later can just `rm -rf` it. 1. http://www.mail-archive.com/git-users@googlegroups.com/msg04131.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
