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Git source installation (user directory)

Prerequisites

Ask your system administrator to install the following packages:

Compile and install

Dependencies for compiling and installing the Git binaries including the documentation in various formats:

  • dh-autoreconf
  • libcurl4-gnutls-dev
  • libexpat1-dev
  • gettext
  • zlib1g-dev
  • libssl-dev
  • libpcre2-dev
  • asciidoc
  • xmlto
  • docbook2x

Runtime

The latest version of Git (currently 2.46.2) requires the following packages at runtime:

  • libc6
  • libcurl3-gnutls
  • liberror-perl
  • libexpat1
  • libpcre2-8-0
  • perl
  • zlib1g

These packages, as well as tar and curl, must be available on the host.

Install

Export environment variables GIT_VERSION and PREFIX, e.g.

mkdir $HOME/.local
export GIT_VERSION=2.46.2 PREFIX=$HOME/.local

Compile Git binaries including documentation and install in your ~/.local directory:

curl -sSLO \
    https://github.com/git/git/archive/refs/tags/v$GIT_VERSION.tar.gz \
  && tar -zxf v$GIT_VERSION.tar.gz \
  && cd git-$GIT_VERSION \
  && make configure \
  && ./configure \
    --prefix=$PREFIX \
    --libexecdir=$PREFIX/lib \
  && make all doc info strip \
  && make install install-doc install-html install-info