Minimal install for "git" on FC5 ?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Sat Jul 29 08:44:16 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 11:20 -0700, Andrew D. Stadler wrote:
> On another list where I've been working out some ATI driver issues,  
> it's been suggested that I use the "git bisect" tool to try and  
> narrow down where the problem crept into the driver.  So now I need  
> to install "git" on my FC5 system.
> 
> I ran "Add/Remove Software" and selected Development -> Development  
> Tools -> Optional Packages and found "git".  This selected  
> git-1.4.0-1.fc5.
> 
> The dependencies, however, seem a bit heavyweight.  apr?  cvs tools?   
> subversion?  perl?  postrgresql?
> 
> Does the baseline git really need all of this?  I just want to run  
> 'git clone' and 'git bisect'.  I don't use cvs or subversion, for  
> example.
> 
> I'm just wondering if there's a lighter weight way to install a  
> minimal git on my system.

Try:
# yum install git-core

Paul.





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