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From: <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
To: "'Mun Johl'" <Mun.Johl@wdc.com>, <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: "fatal: Not a git repository" issued during 'make' from source code
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2023 16:18:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <034501d9cc91$069bd360$13d37a20$@nexbridge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR04MB8289FF1D6BAC59833D922BA89C10A@SJ0PR04MB8289.namprd04.prod.outlook.com>

On Friday, August 11, 2023 3:57 PM, Mun Johl wrote:
>I am new to git and am trying to compile git-2.41.0 on RHEL7.  When I run
'make
>prefix=/usr/local all doc', I get the following error:
>
>fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /tools)
>
>Which I infer means that I need to do the build within a git repo.  Is that
correct?  Or
>have I missed some basic step in the build process?

Yes, you must be in the cloned git repository in order to run the build.
--Randall


  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-11 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-11 19:57 "fatal: Not a git repository" issued during 'make' from source code Mun Johl
2023-08-11 20:18 ` rsbecker [this message]
2023-08-11 20:22   ` Mun Johl
2023-08-11 20:26     ` Mun Johl
2023-08-11 20:41       ` rsbecker
2023-08-11 20:39   ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-11 20:44     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-11 20:46     ` rsbecker
2023-08-11 21:15       ` Mun Johl
2023-08-11 21:46         ` rsbecker
2023-08-11 21:49           ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-11 21:51             ` rsbecker
2023-08-12  5:32           ` Mun Johl
2023-08-14 14:54             ` rsbecker
2023-08-15  1:14               ` Mun Johl
2023-08-15 13:51                 ` rsbecker
2023-08-16  0:19                   ` Mun Johl
2023-08-11 21:46         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-12  5:30           ` Mun Johl
2023-08-12  0:54 ` Todd Zullinger
2023-08-12  5:38   ` Mun Johl

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