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

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.

Windows (use it at your own risk)

First, please install Git for Windows 2.x from 'https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases' and the basic msys2. 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, with the path your Git for Windows 2.x is installed. For example, I install it in the folder called C:\SCM\PortableGit and the PREFIX should be C:\SCM\PortableGit\mingw64 (for 64-bit release) or C:\SCM\PortableGit\mingw32 (for 32-bit release). So I will execute the install.cmd like this:

install.cmd "C:\SCM\PortableGit\mingw64"

Last, please copy colrm.exe and column.exe from folder-your-msys2-installed/usr/bin to folder-your-git-installed/usr/bin.

Enjoy git-extras!