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Signed-off-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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123 lines
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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 info ;# as yourself
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# make prefix=/usr install install-doc install-info ;# 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 $prefix, so "make all; make prefix=/usr
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install" would not work.
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Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to
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set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write instead
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$ make configure ;# as yourself
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$ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
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$ make all doc ;# as yourself
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# make install install-doc ;# as root
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Issues of note:
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- Ancient versions of GNU Interactive Tools (pre-4.9.2) installed a
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program "git", whose name conflicts with this program. But with
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version 4.9.2, after long hiatus without active maintenance (since
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around 1997), it changed its name to gnuit and the name conflict is no
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longer a problem.
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NOTE: When compiled with backward compatibility option, the GNU
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Interactive Tools package still can install "git", but you can build it
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with --disable-transition option to avoid this.
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- You can use git after building but without installing if you
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wanted to. Various git commands need to find other git
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commands and scripts to do their work, so you would need to
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arrange a few environment variables to tell them that their
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friends will be found in your built source area instead of at
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their standard installation area. Something like this works
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for me:
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GIT_EXEC_PATH=`pwd`
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PATH=`pwd`:$PATH
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GITPERLLIB=`pwd`/perl/blib/lib
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export GIT_EXEC_PATH PATH GITPERLLIB
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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". Unless you specify otherwise, you'll get the SHA1
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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 and ARM optimized ones too - see the Makefile).
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- libcurl library; git-http-fetch and git-fetch use them. You
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might also want the "curl" executable for debugging purposes.
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If you do not use http transfer, you are probably OK if you
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do not have 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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- "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
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history graphically, and in git-gui.
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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 bare-bones Porcelainish scripts.
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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
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the asciidoc/xmlto toolchain. Because not many people are
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inclined to install the tools, the default build target
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("make all") does _not_ build them.
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Building and installing the info file additionally requires
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makeinfo and docbook2X. Version 0.8.3 is known to work.
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The documentation is written for AsciiDoc 7, but "make
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ASCIIDOC8=YesPlease doc" will let you format with AsciiDoc 8.
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Alternatively, pre-formatted documentation are available in
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"html" and "man" branches of the git repository itself. For
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example, you could:
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$ mkdir manual && cd manual
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$ git init
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$ git fetch-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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It has been reported that docbook-xsl version 1.72 and 1.73 are
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buggy; 1.72 misformats manual pages for callouts, and 1.73 needs
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the patch in contrib/patches/docbook-xsl-manpages-charmap.patch
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