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-html 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 16The beginning of the Makefile documents many variables that affect the way 17git is built. You can override them either from the command line, or in a 18config.mak file. 19 20Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to 21set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write instead 22 23 $ make configure ;# as yourself 24 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself 25 $ make all doc ;# as yourself 26 # make install install-doc install-html;# as root 27 28 29Issues of note: 30 31 - Ancient versions of GNU Interactive Tools (pre-4.9.2) installed a 32 program "git", whose name conflicts with this program. But with 33 version 4.9.2, after long hiatus without active maintenance (since 34 around 1997), it changed its name to gnuit and the name conflict is no 35 longer a problem. 36 37 NOTE: When compiled with backward compatibility option, the GNU 38 Interactive Tools package still can install "git", but you can build it 39 with --disable-transition option to avoid this. 40 41 - You can use git after building but without installing if you want 42 to test drive it. Simply run git found in bin-wrappers directory 43 in the build directory, or prepend that directory to your $PATH. 44 This however is less efficient than running an installed git, as 45 you always need an extra fork+exec to run any git subcommand. 46 47 It is still possible to use git without installing by setting a few 48 environment variables, which was the way this was done 49 traditionally. But using git found in bin-wrappers directory in 50 the build directory is far simpler. As a historical reference, the 51 old way went like this: 52 53 GIT_EXEC_PATH=`pwd` 54 PATH=`pwd`:$PATH 55 GITPERLLIB=`pwd`/perl/blib/lib 56 export GIT_EXEC_PATH PATH GITPERLLIB 57 58 - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external 59 programs and libraries. Git can be used without most of them by adding 60 the approriate "NO_<LIBRARY>=YesPlease" to the make command line or 61 config.mak file. 62 63 - "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it. 64 65 - "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net. 66 67 - A POSIX-compliant shell is required to run many scripts needed 68 for everyday use (e.g. "bisect", "pull"). 69 70 - "Perl" is needed to use some of the features (e.g. preparing a 71 partial commit using "git add -i/-p", interacting with svn 72 repositories with "git svn"). If you can live without these, use 73 NO_PERL. 74 75 - "openssl" library is used by git-imap-send to use IMAP over SSL. 76 If you don't need it, use NO_OPENSSL. 77 78 By default, git uses OpenSSL for SHA1 but it will use it's own 79 library (inspired by Mozilla's) with either NO_OPENSSL or 80 BLK_SHA1. Also included is a version optimized for PowerPC 81 (PPC_SHA1). 82 83 - "libcurl" library is used by git-http-fetch and git-fetch. You 84 might also want the "curl" executable for debugging purposes. 85 If you do not use http:// or https:// repositories, you do not 86 have to have them (use NO_CURL). 87 88 - "expat" library; git-http-push uses it for remote lock 89 management over DAV. Similar to "curl" above, this is optional 90 (with NO_EXPAT). 91 92 - "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the 93 history graphically, and in git-gui. If you don't want gitk or 94 git-gui, you can use NO_TCLTK. 95 96 - Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules, 97 but depending on your specific installation, you may not 98 have all the libraries/tools needed, or you may have 99 necessary libraries at unusual locations. Please look at the 100 top of the Makefile to see what can be adjusted for your needs. 101 You can place local settings in config.mak and the Makefile 102 will include them. Note that config.mak is not distributed; 103 the name is reserved for local settings. 104 105 - To build and install documentation suite, you need to have 106 the asciidoc/xmlto toolchain. Because not many people are 107 inclined to install the tools, the default build target 108 ("make all") does _not_ build them. 109 110 "make doc" builds documentation in man and html formats; there are 111 also "make man", "make html" and "make info". Note that "make html" 112 requires asciidoc, but not xmlto. "make man" (and thus make doc) 113 requires both. 114 115 "make install-doc" installs documentation in man format only; there 116 are also "make install-man", "make install-html" and "make 117 install-info". 118 119 Building and installing the info file additionally requires 120 makeinfo and docbook2X. Version 0.8.3 is known to work. 121 122 Building and installing the pdf file additionally requires 123 dblatex. Version 0.2.7 with asciidoc >= 8.2.7 is known to work. 124 125 The documentation is written for AsciiDoc 7, but "make 126 ASCIIDOC8=YesPlease doc" will let you format with AsciiDoc 8. 127 128 Alternatively, pre-formatted documentation is available in 129 "html" and "man" branches of the git repository itself. For 130 example, you could: 131 132 $ mkdir manual && cd manual 133 $ git init 134 $ git fetch-pack git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git man html | 135 while read a b 136 do 137 echo $a >.git/$b 138 done 139 $ cp .git/refs/heads/man .git/refs/heads/master 140 $ git checkout 141 142 to checkout the pre-built man pages. Also in this repository: 143 144 $ git checkout html 145 146 would instead give you a copy of what you see at: 147 148 http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/ 149 150 There are also "make quick-install-doc", "make quick-install-man" 151 and "make quick-install-html" which install preformatted man pages 152 and html documentation. 153 This does not require asciidoc/xmlto, but it only works from within 154 a cloned checkout of git.git with these two extra branches, and will 155 not work for the maintainer for obvious chicken-and-egg reasons. 156 157 It has been reported that docbook-xsl version 1.72 and 1.73 are 158 buggy; 1.72 misformats manual pages for callouts, and 1.73 needs 159 the patch in contrib/patches/docbook-xsl-manpages-charmap.patch