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
- commands and scripts to do their work, so you would need to
- arrange a few environment variables to tell them that their
- friends will be found in your built source area instead of at
- their standard installation area. Something like this works
- for me:
+ - You can use git after building but without installing if you want
+ to test drive it. Simply run git found in bin-wrappers directory
+ in the build directory, or prepend that directory to your $PATH.
+ This however is less efficient than running an installed git, as
+ you always need an extra fork+exec to run any git subcommand.
+
+ It is still possible to use git without installing by setting a few
+ environment variables, which was the way this was done
+ traditionally. But using git found in bin-wrappers directory in
+ the build directory is far simpler. As a historical reference, the
+ old way went like this:
GIT_EXEC_PATH=`pwd`
PATH=`pwd`:$PATH
- A POSIX-compliant shell is required to run many scripts needed
for everyday use (e.g. "bisect", "pull").
- - "Perl" is needed to use some of the features (e.g. preparing a
- partial commit using "git add -i/-p", interacting with svn
- repositories with "git svn"). If you can live without these, use
- NO_PERL.
+ - "Perl" version 5.8 or later is needed to use some of the
+ features (e.g. preparing a partial commit using "git add -i/-p",
+ interacting with svn repositories with "git svn"). If you can
+ live without these, use NO_PERL.
- "openssl" library is used by git-imap-send to use IMAP over SSL.
If you don't need it, use NO_OPENSSL.
Building and installing the pdf file additionally requires
dblatex. Version 0.2.7 with asciidoc >= 8.2.7 is known to work.
- The documentation is written for AsciiDoc 7, but "make
- ASCIIDOC8=YesPlease doc" will let you format with AsciiDoc 8.
+ The documentation is written for AsciiDoc 7, but by default
+ uses some compatibility wrappers to work on AsciiDoc 8. If you have
+ AsciiDoc 7, try "make ASCIIDOC7=YesPlease".
Alternatively, pre-formatted documentation is available in
"html" and "man" branches of the git repository itself. For
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
+
+ Users attempting to build the documentation on Cygwin may need to ensure
+ that the /etc/xml/catalog file looks something like this:
+
+ <?xml version="1.0"?>
+ <!DOCTYPE catalog PUBLIC
+ "-//OASIS//DTD Entity Resolution XML Catalog V1.0//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/release/1.0/catalog.dtd"
+ >
+ <catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog">
+ <rewriteURI
+ uriStartString = "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current"
+ rewritePrefix = "/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets"
+ />
+ <rewriteURI
+ uriStartString="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5"
+ rewritePrefix="/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5"
+ />
+ </catalog>
+
+ This can be achieved with the following two xmlcatalog commands:
+
+ xmlcatalog --noout \
+ --add rewriteURI \
+ http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current \
+ /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets \
+ /etc/xml/catalog
+
+ xmlcatalog --noout \
+ --add rewriteURI \
+ http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/xsl/current \
+ /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5 \
+ /etc/xml/catalog