1 2 Git installation 3 4Normally you can just do "make" followed by "make install", and that 5will install the git programs in your own ~/bin/ directory. If you want 6to do a global install, you can do 7 8 $ make prefix=/usr all doc info ;# as yourself 9 # make prefix=/usr install install-doc install-info ;# as root 10 11(or prefix=/usr/local, of course). Just like any program suite 12that uses $prefix, the built results have some paths encoded, 13which are derived from $prefix, so "make all; make prefix=/usr 14install" would not work. 15 16Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to 17set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write instead 18 19 $ make configure ;# as yourself 20 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself 21 $ make all doc ;# as yourself 22 # make install install-doc ;# as root 23 24 25Issues of note: 26 27 - Ancient versions of GNU Interactive Tools (pre-4.9.2) installed a 28 program "git", whose name conflicts with this program. But with 29 version 4.9.2, after long hiatus without active maintenance (since 30 around 1997), it changed its name to gnuit and the name conflict is no 31 longer a problem. 32 33 NOTE: When compiled with backward compatibility option, the GNU 34 Interactive Tools package still can install "git", but you can build it 35 with --disable-transition option to avoid this. 36 37 - You can use git after building but without installing if you 38 wanted to. Various git commands need to find other git 39 commands and scripts to do their work, so you would need to 40 arrange a few environment variables to tell them that their 41 friends will be found in your built source area instead of at 42 their standard installation area. Something like this works 43 for me: 44 45 GIT_EXEC_PATH=`pwd` 46 PATH=`pwd`:$PATH 47 GITPERLLIB=`pwd`/perl/blib/lib 48 export GIT_EXEC_PATH PATH GITPERLLIB 49 50 - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external 51 programs and libraries: 52 53 - "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it. 54 55 - "openssl". Unless you specify otherwise, you'll get the SHA1 56 library from here. 57 58 If you don't have openssl, you can use one of the SHA1 libraries 59 that come with git (git includes the one from Mozilla, and has 60 its own PowerPC and ARM optimized ones too - see the Makefile). 61 62 - libcurl library; git-http-fetch and git-fetch use them. You 63 might also want the "curl" executable for debugging purposes. 64 If you do not use http transfer, you are probably OK if you 65 do not have them. 66 67 - expat library; git-http-push uses it for remote lock 68 management over DAV. Similar to "curl" above, this is optional. 69 70 - "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the 71 history graphically, and in git-gui. 72 73 - "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net 74 75 - "perl" and POSIX-compliant shells are needed to use most of 76 the bare-bones Porcelainish scripts. 77 78 - Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules, 79 but depending on your specific installation, you may not 80 have all the libraries/tools needed, or you may have 81 necessary libraries at unusual locations. Please look at the 82 top of the Makefile to see what can be adjusted for your needs. 83 You can place local settings in config.mak and the Makefile 84 will include them. Note that config.mak is not distributed; 85 the name is reserved for local settings. 86 87 - To build and install documentation suite, you need to have 88 the asciidoc/xmlto toolchain. Because not many people are 89 inclined to install the tools, the default build target 90 ("make all") does _not_ build them. 91 92 Building and installing the info file additionally requires 93 makeinfo and docbook2X. Version 0.8.3 is known to work. 94 95 The documentation is written for AsciiDoc 7, but "make 96 ASCIIDOC8=YesPlease doc" will let you format with AsciiDoc 8. 97 98 Alternatively, pre-formatted documentation are available in 99 "html" and "man" branches of the git repository itself. For 100 example, you could: 101 102 $ mkdir manual && cd manual 103 $ git init 104 $ git fetch-pack git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git man html | 105 while read a b 106 do 107 echo $a >.git/$b 108 done 109 $ cp .git/refs/heads/man .git/refs/heads/master 110 $ git checkout 111 112 to checkout the pre-built man pages. Also in this repository: 113 114 $ git checkout html 115 116 would instead give you a copy of what you see at: 117 118 http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/ 119 120 It has been reported that docbook-xsl version 1.72 and 1.73 are 121 buggy; 1.72 misformats manual pages for callouts, and 1.73 needs 122 the patch in contrib/patches/docbook-xsl-manpages-charmap.patch