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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 install
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(or prefix=/usr/local, of course). Some day somebody may send me a RPM
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spec file or something, and you can do "make rpm" or whatever.
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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-script"
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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". git-http-pull uses this. You can disable building of
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that program if you just want to get started.
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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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