Merge branch 'jt/transfer-fsck-with-promissor'

[thirdparty/git.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 808e07b6599476afc8a0b3a385e73df8b7f9c63d..60e515eaf7432e77d8db8837b7bb95e105ca2126 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -88,9 +88,9 @@ Issues of note:
        export GIT_EXEC_PATH PATH GITPERLLIB
 
  - By default (unless NO_PERL is provided) Git will ship various perl
-   scripts & libraries it needs. However, for simplicity it doesn't
-   use the ExtUtils::MakeMaker toolchain to decide where to place the
-   perl libraries. Depending on the system this can result in the perl
+   scripts. However, for simplicity it doesn't use the
+   ExtUtils::MakeMaker toolchain to decide where to place the perl
+   libraries. Depending on the system this can result in the perl
    libraries not being where you'd like them if they're expected to be
    used by things other than Git itself.
 
@@ -102,6 +102,11 @@ Issues of note:
    Will result in e.g. perllibdir=/usr/share/perl/5.26.1 on Debian,
    perllibdir=/usr/share/perl5 (which we'd use by default) on CentOS.
 
+ - Unless NO_PERL is provided Git will ship various perl libraries it
+   needs. Distributors of Git will usually want to set
+   NO_PERL_CPAN_FALLBACKS if NO_PERL is not provided to use their own
+   copies of the CPAN modules Git needs.
+
  - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external
    programs and libraries.  Git can be used without most of them by adding
    the approriate "NO_<LIBRARY>=YesPlease" to the make command line or