Upgrading to Git 1.5.5.1Edit

Created 4/22/2008, updated 5/18/2017

These notes were made while doing the upgrade to Git 1.5.5.1 on two machines:

  • on a local machine running Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2, built inside a local clone of the official Git repository
  • on a remote machine running RHEL 5, built from downloaded source tarballs

Local upgrade

From inside an existing clone of the Git repo:

# get latest changes
git fetch

# check validity of signature on the release tag
git tag -v v1.5.5.1

# note that I am using "co" here as an alias for "checkout"
git co v1.5.5.1

# clean up any cruft that may be laying around from previous builds
make clean

# build and test; see note below about building the docs
make prefix=/usr/local test doc

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

See "Git quickstart" for info on how to set up aliases like git co.

Bash completion update

I didn't do an update of the bash completion support this time because there were no changes since the last release:

git diff v1.5.5..v1.5.5.1 -- contrib/completion

A note on building the documentation

As always, if you want to build the documentation like that you'll need to have the tool chain set up (see "Setting up the Git documentation build chain on Mac OS X Leopard").

If you don't want to set up the tool chain you can download and install the manual pages as shown below.

Remote upgrade

wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.5.5.1.tar.bz2 \
     http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.5.5.1.tar.bz2.sign \
     http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-manpages-1.5.5.1.tar.bz2 \
     http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-manpages-1.5.5.1.tar.bz2.sign
gpg --verify git-1.5.5.1.tar.bz2.sign git-1.5.5.1.tar.bz2
gpg --verify git-manpages-1.5.5.1.tar.bz2.sign git-manpages-1.5.5.1.tar.bz2
tar xjvf git-1.5.5.1.tar.bz2
cd git-1.5.5.1
make configure
./configure --without-tcltk
make test
sudo make install
make clean
make configure
./configure
make GITWEB_PROJECTROOT=/pub/git/path_to_public_repos \
     GITWEB_LIST=/pub/git/conf/gitweb-projects \
     GITWEB_STRICT_EXPORT=1 \
     GITWEB_CSS="/gitweb.css" \
     GITWEB_LOGO="/git-logo.png" \
     GITWEB_FAVICON="/git-favicon.png" \
     GITWEB_CONFIG="/pub/git/conf/gitweb.conf" \
     gitweb/gitweb.cgi
sudo -u git cp gitweb/gitweb.{cgi,css} \
               gitweb/git-*.png \
               /pub/git/public_html
cd ..
sudo tar xjv -C /usr/local/man -f git-manpages-1.5.5.1.tar.bz2