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I think most people will want to install the man pages as well. [jc: incorporated Pasky's comment on not building them as root. Some people may not want to install asciidoc/xmlto toolchain, so redirect them to the man and html branches of the git.git repository as well.] Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Git installation
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Normally you can just do "make" followed by "make install", and that
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will install the git programs in your own ~/bin/ directory. If you want
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to do a global install, you can do
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$ make prefix=/usr all doc ;# as yourself
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# make prefix=/usr install install-doc ;# as root
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(or prefix=/usr/local, of course). Just like any program suite
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that uses $prefix, the built results have some paths encoded,
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which are derived from $prefix, so "make all; make prefix=/usr
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install" would not work.
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Issues of note:
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- git normally installs a helper script wrapper called "git", which
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conflicts with a similarly named "GNU interactive tools" program.
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Tough. Either don't use the wrapper script, or delete the old GNU
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interactive tools. None of the core git stuff needs the wrapper,
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it's just a convenient shorthand and while it is documented in some
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places, you can always replace "git commit" with "git-commit"
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instead.
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But let's face it, most of us don't have GNU interactive tools, and
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even if we had it, we wouldn't know what it does. I don't think it
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has been actively developed since 1997, and people have moved over to
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graphical file managers.
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- Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external
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programs and libraries:
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- "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it.
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- "openssl". The git-rev-list program uses bignum support from
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openssl, and unless you specify otherwise, you'll also get the
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SHA1 library from here.
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If you don't have openssl, you can use one of the SHA1 libraries
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that come with git (git includes the one from Mozilla, and has
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its own PowerPC-optimized one too - see the Makefile), and you
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can avoid the bignum support by excising git-rev-list support
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for "--merge-order" (by hand).
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- "libcurl" and "curl" executable. git-http-fetch and
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git-fetch use them. If you do not use http
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transfer, you are probabaly OK if you do not have
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them.
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- expat library; git-http-push uses it for remote lock
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management over DAV. Similar to "curl" above, this is optional.
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- "GNU diff" to generate patches. Of course, you don't _have_ to
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generate patches if you don't want to, but let's face it, you'll
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be wanting to. Or why did you get git in the first place?
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Non-GNU versions of the diff/patch programs don't generally support
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the unified patch format (which is the one git uses), so you
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really do want to get the GNU one. Trust me, you will want to
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do that even if it wasn't for git. There's no point in living
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in the dark ages any more.
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- "merge", the standard UNIX three-way merge program. It usually
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comes with the "rcs" package on most Linux distributions, so if
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you have a developer install you probably have it already, but a
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"graphical user desktop" install might have left it out.
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You'll only need the merge program if you do development using
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git, and if you only use git to track other peoples work you'll
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never notice the lack of it.
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- "wish", the TCL/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
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history graphically
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- "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net
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- "perl" and POSIX-compliant shells are needed to use most of
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the barebone Porcelainish scripts.
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- "python" 2.3 or more recent; if you have 2.3, you may need
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to build with "make WITH_OWN_SUBPROCESS_PY=YesPlease".
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- Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules,
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but depending on your specific installation, you may not
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have all the libraries/tools needed, or you may have
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necessary libraries at unusual locations. Please look at the
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top of the Makefile to see what can be adjusted for your needs.
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You can place local settings in config.mak and the Makefile
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will include them. Note that config.mak is not distributed;
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the name is reserved for local settings.
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- To build and install documentation suite, you need to have the
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asciidoc/xmlto toolchain. Alternatively, pre-formatted
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documentation are available in "html" and "man" branches of the git
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repository itself. For example, you could:
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$ mkdir manual && cd manual
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$ git init-db
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$ git clone-pack git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git man html |
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while read a b
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do
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echo $a >.git/$b
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done
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$ cp .git/refs/heads/man .git/refs/heads/master
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$ git checkout
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to checkout the pre-built man pages. Also in this repository:
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$ git checkout html
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would instead give you a copy of what you see at:
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http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/
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