Game of Trees Installation Instructions

These installation instruction apply to the OpenBSD version of Game of Trees. See the portable version for installation instructions which apply to other operating systems.

Game of Trees can be installed on OpenBSD with:

pkg_add got

Alternatively, compile the devel/got port:

cd /usr/ports/devel/got
make
make SUDO=doas install

The installation includes:

The got command line interface
The tog repository browser
Several manual pages
Helper programs in the /usr/local/libexec directory:
- got-fetch-pack, got-index-pack, got-read-blob, got-read-commit, got-read-gitconfig, got-read-gotconfig, got-read-object, got-read-pack, got-read-patch, got-read-tag, got-read-tree, got-send-pack

As a post-installation step the GOT_AUTHOR environment variable should be set:

export GOT_AUTHOR='Flan Hacker <flan_hacker@openbsd.org>'

On OpenBSD -current, and OpenBSD 7.3 release or later, the Game of Trees Git repository server can be installed with:

pkg_add gotd

Alternatively, the -server subpackage of the port can be built:

cd /usr/ports/devel/got
env SUBPACKAGE=-server make
env SUBPACKAGE=-server doas make install

The server installation includes:

The gotd daemon
The gotsh network-facing frontend for the daemon
The gotctl control utility

Setup instructions are provided in the gotd, gotsh, and gotd.conf manual pages.

The repository web frontend gotwebd can likewise be installed from packages:

pkg_add gotwebd

Alternatively, the -webd subpackage of the port can be built:

cd /usr/ports/devel/got
env SUBPACKAGE=-webd make
env SUBPACKAGE=-webd doas make install

Setup instructions are provided in the gotwebd manual page.