On 11/22/12 06:28, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: > So, to answer the original question, Git *might* be installed > under /opt, when doing manual compilation, but this is somewhat odd due > to a number of reasons--it's always better to first try installing Git > from a ready-made binary package. Every sensible OS has Git packaged, > and it's even available for Windows. > So when one installing Git on the server, the first thing to try is to > install it using the usual OS's means, like doing `apt-get install git` > or `yum install git` or whatever applies.
The big exception is when running on older boxes. I admin on older Debian box where 1.5.6.5 is the latest version in the repos, so building from source gets a LOT of good stuff in git (i.e., makes git usable :). That said, I agree that I'd put it in /usr/local/... rather than /opt -tkc --
