Docker-Container behaving (nearly) like a git-binary.
Written for my personal private own use only. Comes without any guarantees.
The container contains a helper script for convienient usage. Just print it out and make it accessible in your PATH and executable like this.
$ docker run --entrypoint=/bin/cat trotro/git:2.6.4 /root/git > $HOME/bin/dgit && chmod +x $HOME/bin/dgit
To check if it works it makes sense to just ask for the git version by typing:
$ dgit --version
git version 2.6.4
If you want to use another name just change it from dgit to your desired name.
Now you can start using dgit just like a local git installation.
The Dockerfile uses "ENTRYPOINT" and not "CMD" to behave more like the git-binary. This means, that passing /bin/bash to it will result in an error-message of git ("git: '/bin/bash' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.") and not open a Shell.
To start a Shell inside of the container you have to explicitly override the "ENTRYPOINT" instead:
$ docker run -it --entrypoint /bin/bash trotro/git:2.6.4