On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 07:42:59 -0600 Tim Chase <g...@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> > So, to answer the original question, Git *might* be installed > > under /opt, when doing manual compilation, but this is somewhat odd > > due to a number of reasons--it's always better to first try > > installing Git from a ready-made binary package. Every sensible OS > > has Git packaged, and it's even available for Windows. > > So when one installing Git on the server, the first thing to try is > > to install it using the usual OS's means, like doing `apt-get > > install git` or `yum install git` or whatever applies. > The big exception is when running on older boxes. I admin on older > Debian box where 1.5.6.5 is the latest version in the repos, so > building from source gets a LOT of good stuff in git (i.e., makes > git usable :). That said, I agree that I'd put it in /usr/local/... > rather than /opt Same thing here, but installing Git from backports helped me so far. --
