Can I use git without installing?
I have heard good things about git and I would like to try it out before installing it. This would also be great to put it on a flash drive if I wanted to use git at school. Is it possible to use the full path like /path/to/git init?
I primarily use Mac OS X so the question is mostly directed for Mac, but I would also like to know if it is possible on other OS's as well.
EDIT:
Compiling from source works. I used the following commands:
cd git-1.7.5.1 #this is the decompressed dir containing src
make configure
./configure --prefix=/path/to/install/git
make all
sudo make install
The downside to this method is that once compiled, the directory is a hefty 200MB.
That is why I chose jgit as the answer. jgit.sh is less than 2MB and supports the following commands:
add Add file contents to the index
branch List, create, or delete branches
checkout Checkout a branch to the working tree
clone Clone a repository into a new directory
commit Record changes to the repository
daemon Export repositories over git://
diff Show diffs
fetch Update remote refs from another repository
init Create an empty git repository
log View commit history
merge Merges two development histories
push Update remote repository from local refs
rm Stop tracking a file
tag Create a tag
version Display the version of jgit
You can download jgit.sh here http://www.eclipse.org/jgit/download/
Answer
Or you can try out JGit, it is a single bash file that you can run basic Git commands. Git is self contained in that bash script.
To download JGit, choose the second link (Self contained command line executable) located here http://www.eclipse.org/jgit/download/ once downloaded, rename it to jgit.sh and just run it: jgit.sh (remember to chmod +x jgit.sh)