From 3c767a08243244b18d48315f8433ba07e435f654 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 23:54:47 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] INSTALL: a tip for running after building but without installing. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- INSTALL | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) 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: -- 2.26.2