will install the git programs in your own ~/bin/ directory. If you want
to do a global install, you can do
- make prefix=/usr install
+ $ make prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
+ # make prefix=/usr install ;# as root
-(or prefix=/usr/local, of course). Some day somebody may send me a RPM
-spec file or something, and you can do "make rpm" or whatever.
+(or prefix=/usr/local, of course). Just like any program suite
+that uses $prefix, the built results have some paths encoded,
+which are derived from $prefix, so "make all; make prefix=/usr
+install" would not work.
Issues of note:
Tough. Either don't use the wrapper script, or delete the old GNU
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-script"
+ places, you can always replace "git commit" with "git-commit"
instead.
But let's face it, most of us don't have GNU interactive tools, and
can avoid the bignum support by excising git-rev-list support
for "--merge-order" (by hand).
- - "libcurl". git-http-pull uses this. You can disable building of
- that program if you just want to get started.
+ - "libcurl" and "curl" executable. git-http-fetch and
+ git-fetch use them. If you do not use http
+ transfer, you are probabaly OK if you do not have
+ them.
- - "GNU patch" to generate patches. Of course, you don't _have_ to
+ - 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 patch program don't generally support
+ 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
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
+
+ - "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.
+
+ - "python" 2.3 or more recent; if you have 2.3, you may need
+ to build with "make WITH_OWN_SUBPROCESS_PY=YesPlease".
+
+ - 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
+ necessary libraries at unusual locations. Please look at the
+ top of the Makefile to see what can be adjusted for your needs.