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
8 $ make prefix=/usr all doc info ;# as yourself
9 # make prefix=/usr install install-doc install-info ;# as root
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.
16 Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to
17 set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write instead
19 $ make configure ;# as yourself
20 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
21 $ make all doc ;# as yourself
22 # make install install-doc ;# as root
27 - git normally installs a helper script wrapper called "git", which
28 conflicts with a similarly named "GNU interactive tools" program.
30 Let's face it, most of us don't have GNU interactive tools, and even
31 if we had it, we wouldn't know what it does. I don't think it has
32 been actively developed since 1997, and people have moved over to
33 graphical file managers.
35 In addition, as of gnuit-4.9.2, the GNU interactive tools package has
36 been renamed. You can compile gnuit with the --disable-transition
37 option and then it will not conflict with git.
39 - You can use git after building but without installing if you
40 wanted to. Various git commands need to find other git
41 commands and scripts to do their work, so you would need to
42 arrange a few environment variables to tell them that their
43 friends will be found in your built source area instead of at
44 their standard installation area. Something like this works
49 GITPERLLIB=`pwd`/perl/blib/lib
50 export GIT_EXEC_PATH PATH GITPERLLIB
52 - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external
53 programs and libraries:
55 - "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it.
57 - "openssl". Unless you specify otherwise, you'll get the SHA1
60 If you don't have openssl, you can use one of the SHA1 libraries
61 that come with git (git includes the one from Mozilla, and has
62 its own PowerPC and ARM optimized ones too - see the Makefile).
64 - libcurl library; git-http-fetch and git-fetch use them. You
65 might also want the "curl" executable for debugging purposes.
66 If you do not use http transfer, you are probably OK if you
69 - expat library; git-http-push uses it for remote lock
70 management over DAV. Similar to "curl" above, this is optional.
72 - "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
73 history graphically, and in git-gui.
75 - "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net
77 - "perl" and POSIX-compliant shells are needed to use most of
78 the barebone Porcelainish scripts.
80 - Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules,
81 but depending on your specific installation, you may not
82 have all the libraries/tools needed, or you may have
83 necessary libraries at unusual locations. Please look at the
84 top of the Makefile to see what can be adjusted for your needs.
85 You can place local settings in config.mak and the Makefile
86 will include them. Note that config.mak is not distributed;
87 the name is reserved for local settings.
89 - To build and install documentation suite, you need to have
90 the asciidoc/xmlto toolchain. Because not many people are
91 inclined to install the tools, the default build target
92 ("make all") does _not_ build them.
94 Building and installing the info file additionally requires
95 makeinfo and docbook2X. Version 0.8.3 is known to work.
97 The documentation is written for AsciiDoc 7, but "make
98 ASCIIDOC8=YesPlease doc" will let you format with AsciiDoc 8.
100 Alternatively, pre-formatted documentation are available in
101 "html" and "man" branches of the git repository itself. For
104 $ mkdir manual && cd manual
106 $ git fetch-pack git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git man html |
111 $ cp .git/refs/heads/man .git/refs/heads/master
114 to checkout the pre-built man pages. Also in this repository:
118 would instead give you a copy of what you see at:
120 http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/
122 It has been reported that docbook-xsl version 1.72 and 1.73 are
123 buggy; 1.72 misformats manual pages for callouts, and 1.73 needs
124 the patch in contrib/patches/docbook-xsl-manpages-charmap.patch