Installing git questions I can't find an answer to.

Installing git questions I can't find an answer to.

[Jordan]

Hello,
I have searched the internet and can find no answer to my dilemma. I am
trying to install a local copy of git on a Linux machine that is not
connected to the internet and I don't have root privileges on. I can
download and transfer things to this machine, but that is it. I think this
should be possible, but have had no luck with the things I have tried.
Thanks you for any advice.
Regards
Jordan

Re: Installing git questions I can't find an answer to.

[Pratyush Yadav]

On 08/04/20 08:12AM, Jordan wrote:
> Hello,
> I have searched the internet and can find no answer to my dilemma. I am
> trying to install a local copy of git on a Linux machine that is not
> connected to the internet and I don't have root privileges on. I can
> download and transfer things to this machine, but that is it. I think this
> should be possible, but have had no luck with the things I have tried.
> Thanks you for any advice.

Are you able to build Git from source? Do you have all the dependencies 
already installed? If so, I have sometimes used the Git binary in the 
build folder when testing a new feature I was working on because I 
didn't want to install an unstable version on my system. It worked fine 
for the most part, though I admit I didn't really use a whole lot of 
things other than commit and some worktree commands. Maybe something 
like that would work for you? You can download a tarball from kernel.org 
[0].

If you can't, maybe you can try building Git on a machine you _do_ have 
internet and root access on, and then copy over the binaries? Again, I 
haven't played around a whole lot with something like this so I can't 
say if it'll work. Something to try I guess.

[0] https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/

-- 
Regards,
Pratyush Yadav

RE: Installing git questions I can't find an answer to.

[Jordan]

Hello Pratyush,
Thanks for the reply. I was able to build it from a tarball, but it was
certainly not straightforward. After a failed attempt and more research I
came to the following that works. 
$ tar -zxf git-2.9.4.tar.gz
$ cd git-2.9.4
$ make configure
$ ./configure --prefix=/ <my directory>
$ make && make install

Regards,
Jordan

-----Original Message-----
From: Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com> 
Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2020 3:08 AM
To: Jordan <jordan.az@samsung.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Installing git questions I can't find an answer to.

On 08/04/20 08:12AM, Jordan wrote:
> Hello,
> I have searched the internet and can find no answer to my dilemma. I 
> am trying to install a local copy of git on a Linux machine that is 
> not connected to the internet and I don't have root privileges on. I 
> can download and transfer things to this machine, but that is it. I 
> think this should be possible, but have had no luck with the things I have
tried.
> Thanks you for any advice.

Are you able to build Git from source? Do you have all the dependencies
already installed? If so, I have sometimes used the Git binary in the build
folder when testing a new feature I was working on because I didn't want to
install an unstable version on my system. It worked fine for the most part,
though I admit I didn't really use a whole lot of things other than commit
and some worktree commands. Maybe something like that would work for you?
You can download a tarball from kernel.org [0].

If you can't, maybe you can try building Git on a machine you _do_ have
internet and root access on, and then copy over the binaries? Again, I
haven't played around a whole lot with something like this so I can't say if
it'll work. Something to try I guess.

[0] https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/

--
Regards,
Pratyush Yadav