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,
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.
+ 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: As of gnuit-4.9.2, the GNU interactive tools package has been
+ renamed. You can compile gnuit with the --disable-transition
+ option and then it will not conflict with git.
+
- 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
- "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
- expat library; git-http-push uses it for remote lock
management over DAV. Similar to "curl" above, this is optional.
- - "GNU diff" to generate patches. Of course, you don't _have_ to
- generate patches if you don't want to, but let's face it, you'll
- be wanting to. Or why did you get git in the first place?
-
- Non-GNU versions of the diff/patch programs don't generally support
- the unified patch format (which is the one git uses), so you
- really do want to get the GNU one. Trust me, you will want to
- 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
+ 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.
+ - "cpio" is used by git-clone when doing a local (possibly
+ hardlinked) clone.
+
- 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
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-db
+ $ git init
$ git fetch-pack git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git man html |
while read a b
do
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