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Why is the `git subtree` not working even though I have git 1.8.3.2 installed on Ubuntu 12.10?


I am about to deploy my AngularJS based static site as a Github Page with Yeoman. Step 3 of the deployment instructions tell me to do

git subtree push --prefix dist origin gh-pages

but when I enter that I get

git: 'subtree' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

This SO answer provided me instructions on how to upgrade to the latest git-core and ensure it always get upgraded to the latest stable release.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git

After running those commands I did git --version to make sure I had the latest version and apparently I did since git version 1.8.3.2 was the output. Now when I tried running

git subtree push --prefix dist origin gh-pages

again I still got the same following error

git: 'subtree' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

Finally I just restarted Ubuntu 12.10 and tried to run the command again but once again, I got the same error.

How come the git subtree command is still not working even though I have upgraded to the current stable release?


Solution

  • It doesn't seem to be installed by the default package. This site has some directions: http://engineeredweb.com/blog/how-to-install-git-subtree