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Explicitly mention how to install by hand in build-as-user and
install-as-root steps.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Junio C Hamano 2005-11-09 12:40:03 -08:00
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@ -5,10 +5,13 @@ Normally you can just do "make" followed by "make install", and that
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.
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