distributed vcs for hp-ux

Question

I've been banging my head against the proverbial wall for the past couple of days trying to figure out how to install git on an HP-UX server to which i do not have root access. I've realized that this is not going to be a project of minimal effort, and I've decided to look for another vcs that I can either compile, or run from java on HP-UX without having to make significant changes to the source code. since I don't have root access, I can't use swinstall, so that leaves out depot packages, so I must compile or use java. can anyone point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

Maybe I don't get it... but couldn't you just compile git from source with --prefix specified to a directory you have access to and throw in the path to "git/install/bin" into a .bashrc file or something of the sort?

See http://joemaller.com/908/how-to-install-git-on-a-shared-host/ for a mini tutorial... unless your issues involve something other than needing write access to system directories?

Answer 2

I haven't worked with Git before, but I've had great success with Mercurial for a Distributed VCS. It's written in Python instead of C. I was able to download Mercurial 1.7.1, extract it, and run make local to build it in-place. I then added the directory to my path and am able to run it with issue.