Installation of git on Libreelec

fatt0ny · December 9, 2018 at 11:11 PM

Hi,

I am running Libreelec on...

raspberry pi 2

8.02

I have spent some time searching for this possibility but no joy, "git" is just too common search term.

Is it possible to get git running on Libreelec ether via a addon or perhaps directly via a binary?

I'm not currently using docker, so would prefer not to go down that route.

Thanks

**chewitt** · December 9, 2018 at 11:31 PM Official Post

Not natively supported or via any known add-on. Go docker.

fatt0ny · December 9, 2018 at 11:34 PM

Thanks Chewitt, that's what I was afraid of

fatt0ny · December 10, 2018 at 1:04 AM

Unfortunately it looks like there are no git docker containers for arm

**chewitt** · December 10, 2018 at 5:19 AM Official Post

Probably because git is just a basic thing. Add any container based on a conventional distro and install git.

fatt0ny · December 11, 2018 at 8:02 PM

Ok thanks again chewit,

This is what I came up with, if anybody else is in need of git

Based on alpine/git currently on the docker hub (https://hub.docker.com/r/alpine/git/)

and should work for arm32v6 and arm32v7 architecture

First make a dir to build the app

cd ~/

mkdir gitapp

cd gitapp

Then create a docker build file

nano Dockerfile

Paste the following

Docker

FROM arm32v6/alpine
LABEL maintainer Me <me@me.com>

RUN apk --update add git openssh && \
rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && \
rm /var/cache/apk/*

VOLUME /git
WORKDIR /git

ENTRYPOINT ["git"]
CMD ["--help"]

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Use docker to build the git app

docker build .

This will build the docker container

when it has finished building, the last line of the output should read...

"Successfully built" followed by a number. take note of that nunber

Now add a function to the .profile/.bashrc located in the home dir.

this will be called every time git is called in the command line.

cd ~/

nano .profile

Paste the following replacing the ??? with the number outputed in the build process

Code

function git () {
(docker run -ti --rm -v ${HOME}:/root -v $(pwd):/git ?????????? "$@")
}

Now reload the current user profile by loging out and back in or...

source ~/.profile

That should be it!

try running a git command from terminal

git help

If all is well the temp dir we created to build the app can be removed

rm -r ~/gitapp

regards

agwiebe · November 30, 2019 at 3:22 PM

This is brilliant! Thank you. Question tho, how can I add this to the PATH so a docker build can call it?]

Nevermind, I just cloned the repo using this and built from local directory.

jotak · April 2, 2023 at 9:18 AM

Hi,

I've recently moved my rpi distro to LibreELEC; I also used to have git on that device, as I use it as a centralisation point for some repositories. I know this is out of scope for LibreELEC, but still, I want to see if I can still have that. So I managed to install the git CLI with the help of the above instructions thanks for that! ) and also this, but for some reason, when I create a git bare repo on the pi, it isn't recognized as I would expect. Do you know if it's a limitation, maybe due to running as root?

Code

mkdir repo.git && cd repo.git
git init --bare

Then testing it:

Code

$ cd ..
$ git clone repo.git
fatal: repository 'repo.git' does not exist

On another system (not LibreELEC), the same steps would work.

Something weird when doing "git init --bare" is, in the output, it writes "Initialized empty Git repository in /git/"

Which is obviously wrong, there's no /git, and I do see created git files in my ~/repo.git

Any idea what I could try?

puck · February 9, 2025 at 2:47 AM

Quote from jotak

I've recently moved my rpi distro to LibreELEC; I also used to have git on that device, as I use it as a centralisation point for some repositories. I know this is out of scope for LibreELEC, but still, I want to see if I can still have that. So I managed to install the git CLI with the help of the above instructions thanks for that! ) and also this, but for some reason, when I create a git bare repo on the pi, it isn't recognized as I would expect. Do you know if it's a limitation, maybe due to running as root?

This is because only the current working directory is visible within the Docker container you're running. The ```docker run command being run is mapping the correct working directory as /git and then running git within that directory.

Installation of git on Libreelec

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