Upgrading to Git 1.5.4.1Edit

Created 2/12/2008, updated 5/18/2017

These notes were made while upgrading to Git 1.5.4.1.

Local upgrade

These notes were made performing the upgrade on Mac OS X 10.5.1 Leopard, using a local clone of the central Git repository.

# get new stuff from upstream
git fetch

# check the signature on the tag
git tag -v v1.5.4.1

# switching working tree to v1.5.4.1
git checkout v1.5.4.1

# 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".

Remote upgrade

Originally I didn't do an upgrade on the remote server because there weren't really any relevant fixes in the new release, and I'll be migrating machines anyway at the end of the month.

However, I discovered a big in gitweb and so had to do some testing. So I created a clone of the central Git repository and after testing installed 1.5.4.1.

Building

# clone
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git git.git
cd git.git

# checkout HEAD of maint (currently 1.5.4.1)
git checkout origin/maint

# build and test
nice make prefix=/usr/local test

# install
sudo make prefix=/usr/local install

# get man pages
cd ..
wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-manpages-1.5.4.1.tar.bz2 \
     http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-manpages-1.5.4.1.tar.bz2.sign

# verify
gpg --verify git-manpages-1.5.4.1.tar.bz2.sign git-manpages-1.5.4.1.tar.bz2

# install
sudo tar xjv -C /usr/local/man -f git-manpages-1.5.4.1.tar.bz2

Updating gitweb

# from top-level of Git source tree
make clean
make prefix=/usr/local \
     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