will install the git programs in your own ~/bin/ directory. If you want
to do a global install, you can do
- $ make prefix=/usr all doc ;# as yourself
- # make prefix=/usr install install-doc ;# as root
+ $ make prefix=/usr all doc info ;# as yourself
+ # make prefix=/usr install install-doc install-info ;# as root
(or prefix=/usr/local, of course). Just like any program suite
that uses $prefix, the built results have some paths encoded,
Issues of note:
- - git normally installs a helper script wrapper called "git", which
- conflicts with a similarly named "GNU interactive tools" program.
+ - Ancient versions of GNU Interactive Tools (pre-4.9.2) installed a
+ program "git", whose name conflicts with this program. But with
+ version 4.9.2, after long hiatus without active maintenance (since
+ around 1997), it changed its name to gnuit and the name conflict is no
+ longer a problem.
- Tough. Either don't use the wrapper script, or delete the old GNU
- interactive tools. None of the core git stuff needs the wrapper,
- it's just a convenient shorthand and while it is documented in some
- places, you can always replace "git commit" with "git-commit"
- instead.
-
- But let's face it, most of us don't have GNU interactive tools, and
- even if we had it, we wouldn't know what it does. I don't think it
- has been actively developed since 1997, and people have moved over to
- graphical file managers.
+ NOTE: When compiled with backward compatibility option, the GNU
+ Interactive Tools package still can install "git", but you can build it
+ with --disable-transition option to avoid this.
- You can use git after building but without installing if you
wanted to. Various git commands need to find other git
- "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it.
- - "openssl". The git-rev-list program uses bignum support from
- openssl, and unless you specify otherwise, you'll also get the
- SHA1 library from here.
+ - "openssl". Unless you specify otherwise, you'll get the SHA1
+ library from here.
If you don't have openssl, you can use one of the SHA1 libraries
that come with git (git includes the one from Mozilla, and has
its own PowerPC and ARM optimized ones too - see the Makefile).
- - "libcurl" and "curl" executable. git-http-fetch and
- git-fetch use them. If you do not use http
- transfer, you are probably OK if you do not have
- them.
+ - libcurl library; git-http-fetch and git-fetch use them. You
+ might also want the "curl" executable for debugging purposes.
+ If you do not use http transfer, you are probably OK if you
+ do not have them.
- expat library; git-http-push uses it for remote lock
management over DAV. Similar to "curl" above, this is optional.
- "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
- history graphically
+ history graphically, and in git-gui.
- "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net
- "perl" and POSIX-compliant shells are needed to use most of
- the barebone Porcelainish scripts.
+ the bare-bones Porcelainish scripts.
- Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules,
but depending on your specific installation, you may not
will include them. Note that config.mak is not distributed;
the name is reserved for local settings.
- - To build and install documentation suite, you need to have the
- asciidoc/xmlto toolchain. Alternatively, pre-formatted
- documentation are available in "html" and "man" branches of the git
- repository itself. For example, you could:
+ - To build and install documentation suite, you need to have
+ the asciidoc/xmlto toolchain. Because not many people are
+ inclined to install the tools, the default build target
+ ("make all") does _not_ build them.
+
+ Building and installing the info file additionally requires
+ makeinfo and docbook2X. Version 0.8.3 is known to work.
+
+ The documentation is written for AsciiDoc 7, but "make
+ ASCIIDOC8=YesPlease doc" will let you format with AsciiDoc 8.
+
+ Alternatively, pre-formatted documentation are available in
+ "html" and "man" branches of the git repository itself. For
+ example, you could:
$ mkdir manual && cd manual
$ git init
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/
+ It has been reported that docbook-xsl version 1.72 and 1.73 are
+ buggy; 1.72 misformats manual pages for callouts, and 1.73 needs
+ the patch in contrib/patches/docbook-xsl-manpages-charmap.patch