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I'm trying to install git from source using

make prefix=/Users/gareth/local/git install

but after installation nothing works properly, the commands all fail with, for example

git: 'pull' is not a git-command. See 'git --help'.

After some research I found out that the most obvious problem is this output:

$ git --exec-path /Users/gareth

but I don't know why the exec-path is set to my home directory. The binaries are all in what appears to be the correct place, ~/local/git/libexec/git-core/git*

How can I work out what went wrong, and how to fix it?

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    Did you do ./configure --prefix=/Users/gareth/local/git ? Commented Sep 10, 2009 at 13:05
  • The INSTALL file, and the help I looked for on IRC, suggested that the make prefix= would be sufficient. Even so, I get the same result when I use that ./configure parameter Commented Sep 10, 2009 at 13:15
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    See also the same question (different user) on SO: stackoverflow.com/questions/1465398/… Commented Sep 23, 2009 at 14:05

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Maybe this is not really what you're looking for, but I would recommend you MacPorts.

With it, you can quickly build projects from sources and keeping them up-to-date. It will also handle any dependencies.

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I think you're building Git the wrong way. You should be donig something like:

./configure --prefix=/Users/gareth/local/git make make install

Then make sure the git binary is on your path (and possibly git-receive-pack if you want to push via ssh from another machine).

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I don't know the answer to your question, but as a workaround, consider installing Git for OS X. [There is a Build-Your-Own page on the wiki, but I'm not sure if it'll provide enough detail for what you want to do.]

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