do that even if it wasn't for git. There's no point in living
in the dark ages any more.
- - "merge", the standard UNIX three-way merge program. It usually
- comes with the "rcs" package on most Linux distributions, so if
- you have a developer install you probably have it already, but a
- "graphical user desktop" install might have left it out.
-
- You'll only need the merge program if you do development using
- git, and if you only use git to track other peoples work you'll
- never notice the lack of it.
-
- "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
history graphically
- "perl" and POSIX-compliant shells are needed to use most of
the barebone Porcelainish scripts.
- - "python" 2.3 or more recent; if you have 2.3, you may need
- to build with "make WITH_OWN_SUBPROCESS_PY=YesPlease".
-
- Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules,
but depending on your specific installation, you may not
have all the libraries/tools needed, or you may have