Upgrading to Git 1.5.4-rc4 on Mac OS X 10.5.1 LeopardEdit

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These notes were made while upgrading to Git 1.5.4-rc4 on Mac OS X 10.5.1 Leopard, using a local clone of the central Git repository. I didn’t perform the same upgrade on the server.

# get new stuff from upstream
git fetch

# check the signature on the tag
git tag -v v1.5.4-rc4

# switching working tree to v1.5.4-rc4
git checkout v1.5.4-rc4

# clean up any cruft that might be lying around
make clean

# build, run tests, and generate docs
make prefix=/usr/local test doc

# install
sudo make prefix=/usr/local install install-doc

In order to build the docs you need the documentation toolchain in place; see "Setting up the Git documentation build chain on Mac OS X Leopard".