Post tagged: git

by Paul Agapow
in programming

tagged imported, version-control, programming, tools, git, possibly-obselete

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Installing git on RHEL3

The hard way

Background

I had to install git on a Redhat server, without the benefit of a package managers, local repository or anything like a sensible configuration. Because "security".

Install a recent version of lib curl

Why? because git calls cur_easy_strerror which was only introduced in libcurl 7.12.0. RHEL3 has …