How to install Git on Solaris 10?

Question

My query is regarding installing Git on Solaris 10. uname -a gives

bash-3.00# uname -a
SunOS 5.10 Generic_141444-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240

I want to use Solaris server as Git central repository while Windows based users to use the git repository on Solaris server for project activities. What are the steps for installation? What I need to install for users on Windows platform so they can use git?

Solution

On Solaris, you can follow the instruction on opencsw or git-scm to install Git. On windows, you can download the install package from official page, but currently, git on Solaris is 2.x, on windows it's 1.x, maybe there're small differences between them, but I don't think it's a big deal.

Alternatively, on windows, you can install 3rd party git client, such as Tortoise Git or SourceTree.

Next, Windows-based users need to use the git repository on Solaris, so it's necessary to learn how to build a git server, you can refer to relative chapter in git book.