tj.git-extras/Installation.md

Installing git-extras

Installing with a package manager

Debian

$ sudo $apt_pref update
$ sudo $apt_pref install git-extras

Mac OS X with Homebrew

$ brew install git-extras

Windows

First, please install Git for Windows 2.x from 'https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases'. Second, clone the git-extras repo into any folder you like.

git clone https://github.com/tj/git-extras.git
# checkout the latest tag (optional)
git checkout $(git describe --tags $(git rev-list --tags --max-count=1))

After that, execute the install.cmd in the command prompt. If you installed git as admin, you need to run this prompt as admin, too. Per default, it finds a Git for Windows 2.x if it's in the path (first path in where git.exe wins) or installed in the default location %ProgramFiles%\Git. The fallback is C:\SCM\PortableGit. If you didn't install git into one of these dirs, you have to supply the path for the install location, e.g. if git is installed in c:\git:

install.cmd "C:\git"

Last, to use git line-summary, git summary and git ignore-io, you need to copy column.exe from a msys2 installation from folder-your-msys2-installed/usr/bin to folder-your-git-installed/usr/bin.

BSD

Use the instructions to build from source below. Make sure you are using gmake (GNU make) instead of make.

Building from source

Obtain the git-extras source by cloning its GitHub repo or downloading a tarball of a release. Then install it by doing make install from the source tree.

$ git clone https://github.com/tj/git-extras.git
$ cd git-extras
# checkout the latest tag
$ git checkout $(git describe --tags $(git rev-list --tags --max-count=1))
$ [sudo] make install

By default, git-extras is installed under /usr/local. To install it at an alternate location, specify a PREFIX when calling make.

# Non-root users can install under their home directory
make install PREFIX=$HOME/software

# For third-party software kept under /opt
make install PREFIX=/opt

If you want to relocate the bulk of the installation but still have configuration files installed to the system /etc dir or other alternate location, you can specify SYSCONFDIR in addition to PREFIX.

$ sudo make install PREFIX=/usr/local SYSCONFDIR=/etc

See the Makefile for details on advanced configuration options.

Installing from network

One-liner:

curl -sSL http://git.io/git-extras-setup | sudo bash /dev/stdin

Updating

If you installed git-extras with a package manager, use that package manager's tools to update it.

If you installed git-extras from source, you can run git-extras update to update it to the latest release. Be aware that this may lose any configuration options you specified during the original installation.

Enjoy git-extras!