NAME
gitgitr - Automatically fetch and build the most recent git.
VERSION
version 0.4
SYNOPSIS
gitgitr
-- fetches and builds the most recent version of git
gitgitr -t
-- fetches and builds the most recent version of git, and runs the
test suite prior to installation
gitgitr -v 1.8.0
-- fetches and builds version 1.8.0 of git
DESCRIPTION
gitgitr is a tiny utility to simplify building the most recent (or, really, any arbitrary) version of git. This is something you probably only really need if you're obsessive about running the most recent version of git, or if you maintain something like Git::Wrapper, where the ability to quickly install a particular git version comes up way more often that you would like.
OPTIONS
- --help / -h
-
Displays basically the same information you're currently soaking in.
- --no_symlink / -N
-
Don't symlink /opt/git to the new build directory
- --prefix / -p
-
Installation prefix for the current build. Defaults to /opt/git-$GIT_VERSION_NUMBER
- --reinstall / -r
-
By default,
gitgitr
will not build a version that's already installed. This flag will force it to build a version even if it is already preset. - --run_tests / -t
-
Makes
gitgitr
run the git test suite after building and before installing. If the test suite fails, the build will not be installed. Disabled by default because the test suite takes a really long time to run. - --verbose / -V
-
Makes
gitgitr
be a lot more chatty about what it's doing - --version / -v
-
Specifies what version of git to build. Defaults to the most recent version as found on the front page of http://git-scm.com
AUTHOR
John SJ Anderson <genehack@genehack.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2014 by John SJ Anderson.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.