Git-2.52.0

Installation of Git

Prepare Git by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr                   \
            --with-gitconfig=/etc/gitconfig \
            --with-python=python3           \
            --with-libpcre2

Now compile Git by running the following command:

make

You can build the man pages and/or html docs, or use downloaded ones. If you choose to build them, use the next two instructions.

If you have installed "asciidoc" you can create the html version of the man pages and other docs:

make html

If you have installed "asciidoc" and "xmlto" you can create the man pages:

make man

The test suite can be run in parallel mode. To run the test suite, issue: The GIT_UNZIP setting prevents the test suite from using unzip, we need it because in BLFS unzip is a symlink to bsdunzip which does not satisfy the assumption of some tests cases. If any test case fails, the list of failed tests can be shown via make -C t aggregate-results.

GIT_UNZIP=nonexist make test -k

Now, Install Git by running the following command:

make perllibdir=/usr/lib/perl5/5.42/site_perl install

If you downloaded the man pages and/or html docs

If you downloaded the man pages untar them:

tar -xf ../git-manpages-2.52.0.tar.xz \
    -C /usr/share/man --no-same-owner --no-overwrite-dir

If you downloaded the html docs untar them:

mkdir -vp   /usr/share/doc/git-2.52.0
tar   -xf   ../git-htmldocs-2.52.0.tar.xz \
      -C    /usr/share/doc/git-2.52.0 --no-same-owner --no-overwrite-dir

find        /usr/share/doc/git-2.52.0 -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find        /usr/share/doc/git-2.52.0 -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Reorganize text and html in the html-docs (both methods)

For both methods, the html-docs include a lot of plain text files. Reorganize the files by running:

mkdir -vp /usr/share/doc/git-2.52.0/man-pages/{html,text}
mv        /usr/share/doc/git-2.52.0/{git*.adoc,man-pages/text}
mv        /usr/share/doc/git-2.52.0/{git*.,index.,man-pages/}html

mkdir -vp /usr/share/doc/git-2.52.0/technical/{html,text}
mv        /usr/share/doc/git-2.52.0/technical/{*.adoc,text}
mv        /usr/share/doc/git-2.52.0/technical/{*.,}html

mkdir -vp /usr/share/doc/git-2.52.0/howto/{html,text}
mv        /usr/share/doc/git-2.52.0/howto/{*.adoc,text}
mv        /usr/share/doc/git-2.52.0/howto/{*.,}html

sed -i '/^<a href=/s|howto/|&html/|' /usr/share/doc/git-2.52.0/howto-index.html
sed -i '/^\* link:/s|howto/|&html/|' /usr/share/doc/git-2.52.0/howto-index.adoc