Dave Jones wrote:

On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 06:24:54PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
 > 
 > Things in git-land are moving at lightning speed, and usability has 
 > improved a lot since my post a month ago:  http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/26/11
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 1) installing git
 > 
 > git requires bootstrapping, since you must have git installed in order 
 > to check out git.git (git repo), and linux-2.6.git (kernel repo).  I 
 > have put together a bootstrap tarball of today's git repository.
 > 
 > Download tarball from:
 > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/git-20050622.tar.bz2

<blatant self-promotion>
daily snapshots (refreshed once an hour) are available at:
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/git-snapshots/git/
</blatant self-promotion>

 > tarball build-deps:  zlib, libcurl, libcrypto (openssl)
 > 
 > install tarball:  unpack && make && sudo make prefix=/usr/local install

the sudo thing isn't necessary. make install by itself installs it
in ~/bin/ just fine.

Clearly this does not work if installing in /usr/local, as I and others 
do (and as the example shows).

 > After reading the rest of this document, come back and update your copy 
 > of git to the latest:
 > rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/git.git

See above, which allows you to skip this step ;)

huh?  Nothing allows you to skip that step.  Regardless of when you suck 
the tarball, even from your snapshots, the users should not skip this step.

	Jeff