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 ;# as yourself 9 # make prefix=/usr install install-doc ;# 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 - git normally installs a helper script wrapper called "git", which 28 conflicts with a similarly named "GNU interactive tools" program. 29 30 Tough. Either don't use the wrapper script, or delete the old GNU 31 interactive tools. None of the core git stuff needs the wrapper, 32 it's just a convenient shorthand and while it is documented in some 33 places, you can always replace "git commit" with "git-commit" 34 instead. 35 36 But let's face it, most of us don't have GNU interactive tools, and 37 even if we had it, we wouldn't know what it does. I don't think it 38 has been actively developed since 1997, and people have moved over to 39 graphical file managers. 40 41 - You can use git after building but without installing if you 42 wanted to. Various git commands need to find other git 43 commands and scripts to do their work, so you would need to 44 arrange a few environment variables to tell them that their 45 friends will be found in your built source area instead of at 46 their standard installation area. Something like this works 47 for me: 48 49 GIT_EXEC_PATH=`pwd` 50 PATH=`pwd`:$PATH 51 GITPERLLIB=`pwd`/perl/blib/lib 52 export GIT_EXEC_PATH PATH GITPERLLIB 53 54 - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external 55 programs and libraries: 56 57 - "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it. 58 59 - "openssl". Unless you specify otherwise, you'll get the SHA1 60 library from here. 61 62 If you don't have openssl, you can use one of the SHA1 libraries 63 that come with git (git includes the one from Mozilla, and has 64 its own PowerPC and ARM optimized ones too - see the Makefile). 65 66 - "libcurl" and "curl" executable. git-http-fetch and 67 git-fetch use them. If you do not use http 68 transfer, you are probably OK if you do not have 69 them. 70 71 - expat library; git-http-push uses it for remote lock 72 management over DAV. Similar to "curl" above, this is optional. 73 74 - "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the 75 history graphically, and in git-gui. 76 77 - "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net 78 79 - "perl" and POSIX-compliant shells are needed to use most of 80 the barebone Porcelainish scripts. 81 82 - Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules, 83 but depending on your specific installation, you may not 84 have all the libraries/tools needed, or you may have 85 necessary libraries at unusual locations. Please look at the 86 top of the Makefile to see what can be adjusted for your needs. 87 You can place local settings in config.mak and the Makefile 88 will include them. Note that config.mak is not distributed; 89 the name is reserved for local settings. 90 91 - To build and install documentation suite, you need to have 92 the asciidoc/xmlto toolchain. Because not many people are 93 inclined to install the tools, the default build target 94 ("make all") does _not_ build them. The documentation is 95 written for AsciiDoc 7, but "make ASCIIDOC8=YesPlease doc" 96 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