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What's the difference between

sudo apt-get install git-all

vs

sudo apt-get install git

Is there any advantage of installing either or all?

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Git-all contains all sub-packages, whilst Git only includes main components with minimal dependencies.

As stated in Git on Debian Packages, Git does for example not include

graphical user interface and revision tree visualizer, tools for interoperating with other VCS's, or a web interface..

Those are additional packages.

If you look at Git-all on Debian Packages, you see it states

all sub-packages

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    mattias Any notable advantages of having either or all?
    – Dominic Motuka
    Jul 9, 2016 at 8:37
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    It totally depends on your requirements =) If you don't need a GUI and you're conservative when it comes to disk usage (however, I don't think the git-all is that massive in storage consumption), stick with the git package.
    – mattias
    Jul 9, 2016 at 10:17
  • You can even install git git-gui gitk, thus including a GUI, but still avoid (1) the email extension for sending patches, (2) SVN support, (3) CVS support, (4) MediaWiki remote support, (5) the web interface via Apache (!) and other things.
    – caw
    May 19, 2021 at 23:59
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On my Ubuntu 17.10 x64 git-all v2.14.1 depends on:

  • git (actually git, 28.7 MiB without dependencies)
  • git-doc (git documentation, 10.8 MiB without dependencies)
  • git-cvs (git-cvs interoperability, 1.1 MiB without dependencies)
  • git-mediawiki (MediaWiki remote helper, 0.8 MiB without dependencies)
  • git-svn (git-svn interoperability, 1.0 MiB without dependencies)
  • git-email (git email add-on, 0.8 MiB without dependencies)
  • git-gui (git GUI, 2.2 MiB without dependencies)
  • gitk (git revision tree visualizer, 1.5 MiB without dependencies)
  • gitweb (git web interface, 0.8 MiB without dependencies)
  • git-el (git emacs support, in my case 113 MiB with all dependencies)

In my case git-all installed 93 packages totalling 215 MiB with all dependencies.

So, it's up to you which packages to install..

P.S. You can get all this information, for example, from Synaptic Package Manager.

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I believe running sudo apt-get install git-all is roughly equivalent to running sudo apt-get --install-suggests install git. The latter caused problems for me on Ubuntu 15.10. Among other packages, it tried to install git-daemon-run, which didn't work. (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/runit/+bug/1448164)

Installing git-daemon-sysvinit first, then git, worked better for me. git-daemon-sysvinit replaces git-daemon-run.

So, to finish my thought, you can install either git-all or just git, depending on your requirements. But git-all has the caveat that you will need to install another package first. (git-daemon-sysvinit)

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  • @Anwar, Is there a place to download git compiled binaries and just extract them? No installation or compilation. Just download it as you download ant other binary TAR.
    – Royi
    Jul 27, 2017 at 21:36
  • @Royi I haven't done such installation but I think it should be possible. For example, check this git-annex.branchable.com/install/Linux_standalone
    – Anwar
    Jul 29, 2017 at 7:13
  • @Anwar, What does it mean Git Annex?
    – Royi
    Jul 29, 2017 at 9:19

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