Git.pm: Introduce ident() and ident_person() methods

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 63af8eccf3ce115a992cc3f1dc812e5842e3f75f..4e8f8833848cd26c9adae3f8f130a1a8889a3e79 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -29,6 +29,19 @@ Issues of note:
    has been actively developed since 1997, and people have moved over to
    graphical file managers.
 
+ - You can use git after building but without installing if you
+   wanted to.  Various git commands need to find other git
+   commands and scripts to do their work, so you would need to
+   arrange a few environment variables to tell them that their
+   friends will be found in your built source area instead of at
+   their standard installation area.  Something like this works
+   for me:
+
+       GIT_EXEC_PATH=`pwd`
+       PATH=`pwd`:$PATH
+       GITPERLLIB=`pwd`/perl/blib/lib:`pwd`/perl/blib/arch/auto/Git
+       export GIT_EXEC_PATH PATH GITPERLLIB
+
  - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external
    programs and libraries:
 
@@ -96,7 +109,7 @@ Issues of note:
 
        $ mkdir manual && cd manual
        $ git init-db
-       $ git clone-pack git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git man html |
+       $ git fetch-pack git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git man html |
          while read a b
          do
            echo $a >.git/$b