[git-users] Re: portable git?

2013-06-27 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 10:00:13 PM UTC+2, supertol wrote: Is there any version of git that works as a standalone executable file (can still depend on libraries, ofc). Means, i'd be lookinf for a git.exe (+ dependencies) that i can just drop to a folder and use to initialize a repo in

[git-users] Re: portable Git

2013-01-01 Thread Gabby Romano
Thanks John. From what I know about jenkins, if it ran the install, it won't run again by default unless you upgrade the version of whatever you are installing. so this process, as good as it is, may not be good for me. I was hoping to get a process much similar the what happens between

Re: [git-users] Re: portable Git

2013-01-01 Thread John McKown
That sounds like a good idea to me. On Jan 1, 2013 5:03 AM, Gabby Romano omerik...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks John. From what I know about jenkins, if it ran the install, it won't run again by default unless you upgrade the version of whatever you are installing. so this process, as good as it

[git-users] Re: portable Git

2012-12-31 Thread John McKown
I can't help with this, but I can't help wondering why you want to run git on an arbitrary machine. Also, do you mean on a host running Windows, Linux, one of the *BSD's? You can't have a git which will run regardless of the host OS. Of course, you might be able to have a Windows git in one

Re: [git-users] Re: portable Git

2012-12-31 Thread Gabby Romano
no, that is the reason..your imagination is just fine. I want to automate creation of jenkins Linux slave machines and the environment. I also want to control the version of Git installed on the slaves so it will be aligned with all slaves. you can add an installer on jenkins and have it deployed

[git-users] Re: portable Git

2012-12-31 Thread John McKown
Thanks. I guess it does, if you are install jenkins on a system to which you are not root. Have you considered, on your base system, something like: cd ~ git clone https://github.com/git/git cd git make configure ./configure --prefix=/jenkins/subdirectory/git #change as needed mkdir -p

[git-users] Re: portable Git

2012-12-31 Thread John McKown
OOPS, the zip command should be zip -R git-zip.zip git I forgot the -R switch to recurse the subdirectories. On Sunday, December 30, 2012 9:01:24 AM UTC-6, Gabby Romano wrote: hi all - does anyone know where I can fine a portable version of Git for Linux so no install is needed (yum or