INSTALL

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   2                 Git installation
   3
   4 Normally you can just do "make" followed by "make install", and that
   5 will install the git programs in your own ~/bin/ directory.  If you want
   6 to do a global install, you can do
   7
   8         $ make prefix=/usr all doc ;# as yourself
   9         # make prefix=/usr install install-doc ;# as root
  10
  11 (or prefix=/usr/local, of course).  Just like any program suite
  12 that uses $prefix, the built results have some paths encoded,
  13 which are derived from $prefix, so "make all; make prefix=/usr
  14 install" would not work.
  15
  16 Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to
  17 set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write instead
  18
  19         $ make configure ;# as yourself
  20         $ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
  21         $ make all doc ;# as yourself
  22         # make install install-doc ;# as root
  23
  24
  25 Issues of note:
  26
  27  - git normally installs a helper script wrapper called "git", which
  28    conflicts with a similarly named "GNU interactive tools" program.
  29
  30    Tough.  Either don't use the wrapper script, or delete the old GNU
  31    interactive tools.  None of the core git stuff needs the wrapper,
  32    it's just a convenient shorthand and while it is documented in some
  33    places, you can always replace "git commit" with "git-commit"
  34    instead.
  35
  36    But let's face it, most of us don't have GNU interactive tools, and
  37    even if we had it, we wouldn't know what it does.  I don't think it
  38    has been actively developed since 1997, and people have moved over to
  39    graphical file managers.
  40
  41  - You can use git after building but without installing if you
  42    wanted to.  Various git commands need to find other git
  43    commands and scripts to do their work, so you would need to
  44    arrange a few environment variables to tell them that their
  45    friends will be found in your built source area instead of at
  46    their standard installation area.  Something like this works
  47    for me:
  48
  49         GIT_EXEC_PATH=`pwd`
  50         PATH=`pwd`:$PATH
  51         GITPERLLIB=`pwd`/perl/blib/lib
  52         export GIT_EXEC_PATH PATH GITPERLLIB
  53
  54  - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external
  55    programs and libraries:
  56
  57         - "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it.
  58
  59         - "openssl".  The git-rev-list program uses bignum support from
  60           openssl, and unless you specify otherwise, you'll also get the
  61           SHA1 library from here.
  62
  63           If you don't have openssl, you can use one of the SHA1 libraries
  64           that come with git (git includes the one from Mozilla, and has
  65           its own PowerPC and ARM optimized ones too - see the Makefile).
  66
  67         - "libcurl" and "curl" executable.  git-http-fetch and
  68           git-fetch use them.  If you do not use http
  69           transfer, you are probably OK if you do not have
  70           them.
  71
  72         - expat library; git-http-push uses it for remote lock
  73           management over DAV.  Similar to "curl" above, this is optional.
  74
  75         - "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
  76           history graphically
  77
  78         - "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net
  79
  80         - "perl" and POSIX-compliant shells are needed to use most of
  81           the barebone Porcelainish scripts.
  82
  83  - Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules,
  84    but depending on your specific installation, you may not
  85    have all the libraries/tools needed, or you may have
  86    necessary libraries at unusual locations.  Please look at the
  87    top of the Makefile to see what can be adjusted for your needs.
  88    You can place local settings in config.mak and the Makefile
  89    will include them.  Note that config.mak is not distributed;
  90    the name is reserved for local settings.
  91
  92  - To build and install documentation suite, you need to have the
  93    asciidoc/xmlto toolchain.  Alternatively, pre-formatted
  94    documentation are available in "html" and "man" branches of the git
  95    repository itself.  For example, you could:
  96
  97         $ mkdir manual && cd manual
  98         $ git init
  99         $ git fetch-pack git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git man html |
 100           while read a b
 101           do
 102             echo $a >.git/$b
 103           done
 104         $ cp .git/refs/heads/man .git/refs/heads/master
 105         $ git checkout
 106
 107    to checkout the pre-built man pages.  Also in this repository:
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 109         $ git checkout html
 110
 111    would instead give you a copy of what you see at:
 112
 113         http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/
 114