Re: "fatal: Not a git repository" issued during 'make' from source code

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

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On Friday, August 11, 2023 3:57 PM, Mun Johl wrote:

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I am new to git and am trying to compile git-2.41.0 on RHEL7.  When I run

'make

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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

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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.

Shouldn't we be able to build out of a tarball?

In other words,

    $ mkdir -p /var/tmp/x
    $ cd /var/tmp/x
    $ wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/testing/git-2.42.0.rc1.tar.xz
    $ tar xf git-2.42.0.rc1.tar.xz
    $ cd git-2.42.0.rc1
    $ make prefix=/var/tmp/local all doc
    $ sudo make prefix=/var/tmp/local install

is what I just did to make sure that a build from our tarball extract
does not require a git repository (it would be a bug to require one,
as it would make it impossible to bootstrap).