to do a global install, you can do
$ make prefix=/usr all doc info ;# as yourself
- # make prefix=/usr install install-doc install-info ;# as root
+ # make prefix=/usr install install-doc install-html 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,
$ make configure ;# as yourself
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
$ make all doc ;# as yourself
- # make install install-doc ;# as root
+ # make install install-doc install-html;# as root
Issues of note:
- - git normally installs a helper script wrapper called "git", which
- conflicts with a similarly named "GNU interactive tools" program.
+ - Ancient versions of GNU Interactive Tools (pre-4.9.2) installed a
+ program "git", whose name conflicts with this program. But with
+ version 4.9.2, after long hiatus without active maintenance (since
+ around 1997), it changed its name to gnuit and the name conflict is no
+ longer a problem.
- 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.
-
- In addition, 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.
+ 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.
- You can use git after building but without installing if you
wanted to. Various git commands need to find other git
- "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
inclined to install the tools, the default build target
("make all") does _not_ build them.
+ "make doc" builds documentation in man and html formats; there are
+ also "make man", "make html" and "make info". Note that "make html"
+ requires asciidoc, but not xmlto. "make man" (and thus make doc)
+ requires both.
+
+ "make install-doc" installs documentation in man format only; there
+ are also "make install-man", "make install-html" and "make
+ install-info".
+
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
+ Alternatively, pre-formatted documentation is available in
"html" and "man" branches of the git repository itself. For
example, you could:
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