Installing stgit / stg / stackedgit from source (because ubuntu package is way out of date - 0.19)

install_stgit.sh

#!/bin/bash

set -e
set -u

# install rust
if ! which cargo >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
    curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
fi

# install other build pre-reqs

# ...if you don't want to build/install docmentation, you can omit `xmlto`
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev xmlto

# if you don't want to install documentation, you can skip this - may not be
# needed if you're using the system python
if ! python -m "import asciidoc" > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
    pip install asciidoc
fi

# where you want to clone the stgit source repo to
repo_parent=/src/_external

# where you want to install to
stgit_install_prefix=~/.local

if ! [ -d "${repo_parent}/stgit" ]; then
    mkdir -p "${repo_parent}"
    cd ${repo_parent}
    git clone https://github.com/stacked-git/stgit.git
fi

cd "${repo_parent}/stgit"

# if you don't want to install everything, you can instead use these targets:
# - install
# - install-man
# - install-completion
# - install-html
make "prefix=${stgit_install_prefix}" install-all