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
- "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
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
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. 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
would instead give you a copy of what you see at:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/
-