around 1997), it changed its name to gnuit and the name conflict is no
longer a problem.
- NOTE: When compiled with backward compatiblity option, the GNU
+ 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.
- "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
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/
+ There are also "make quick-install-doc" and "make quick-install-html"
+ which install preformatted man pages and html documentation.
+ This does not require asciidoc/xmlto, but it only works from within
+ a cloned checkout of git.git with these two extra branches, and will
+ not work for the maintainer for obvious chicken-and-egg reasons.
+
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