This page will describe by efforts to upgrade SocialText from version v2.19.0.2 to git version

Install git

# you want to upgrade Debian to lenny
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get install git-core

Checkout source

dpavlin@clone-saturn:~$ git clone git://github.com/socialtext/socialtext.git
remote: Counting objects: 75434, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (19078/19078), done.
Indexing 75434 objects.
remote: Total 75434 (delta 51423), reused 73391 (delta 49592)
 100% (75434/75434) done
Resolving 51423 deltas.
 100% (51423/51423) done
Checking files out...
 100% (3260/3260) done

dpavlin@clone-saturn:~$ cd socialtext/nlw/
dpavlin@clone-saturn:~/socialtext/nlw$ ./configure --socialtext-open 1 --force-ssl-login 1