This project is intended for system administrators who want to perform a source installation of Git. It is meant for installing tagged Git releases on Debian-based Linux distributions, e.g. Ubuntu, using a docker container.
To perform a source installation of Git in your own home directory, see USER_INSTALL.md
This projects requires an installation of docker and docker compose.
To install docker, follow the instructions for your platform:
- Install Docker Engine | Docker Documentation > Supported platforms
- Post-installation steps for Linux
The latest version of Git (currently 2.47.1) requires the following packages at runtime:
libc6libcurl3-gnutlsliberror-perllibexpat1libpcre2-8-0perlzlib1g
These packages, as well as tar and curl, must be available on the host.
Download and extract the source code of this project:
curl -sSL https://gitlab.com/b-data/git/gsi/-/archive/main/gsi-main.tar.gz \
-o gsi.tar.gz
tar -zxf gsi.tar.gz --one-top-level --strip-components=1Change directory and make a copy of all sample. files:
cd gsi
for file in sample.*; do cp "$file" "${file#sample.}"; done;Set IMAGE according to the host's Debian-based Linux distribution
(<distribution>:<release>), GIT_VERSION to the desired version of Git
(<major>.<minor>.<patch>) and PREFIX to the location, where you want the
git programs to be installed (default: /usr/local).
Then, create and start container gsi using options --build (Build images
before starting containers) and -V (Recreate anonymous volumes instead of
retrieving data from the previous containers):
docker-compose up --build -VDo not forget to add PREFIX[/SUBDIR]/bin to PATH when using a PREFIX
within /opt.
PRs accepted.
This project follows the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct.
Community support: Open a new discussion here.
Commercial support: Contact b-data by email.
Copyright © 2021 b-data GmbH
Distributed under the terms of the MIT License.
