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 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"
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.
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
51 GITPERLLIB=`pwd`/perl/blib/lib
52 export GIT_EXEC_PATH PATH GITPERLLIB
54 - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external
55 programs and libraries:
57 - "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it.
59 - "openssl". Unless you specify otherwise, you'll get the SHA1
62 If you don't have openssl, you can use one of the SHA1 libraries
63 that come with git (git includes the one from Mozilla, and has
64 its own PowerPC and ARM optimized ones too - see the Makefile).
66 - "libcurl" and "curl" executable. git-http-fetch and
67 git-fetch use them. If you do not use http
68 transfer, you are probably OK if you do not have
71 - expat library; git-http-push uses it for remote lock
72 management over DAV. Similar to "curl" above, this is optional.
74 - "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
75 history graphically, and in git-gui.
77 - "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net
79 - "perl" and POSIX-compliant shells are needed to use most of
80 the barebone Porcelainish scripts.
82 - "cpio" is used by git-merge for saving and restoring the index,
83 and by git-clone when doing a local (possibly hardlinked) clone.
85 - Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules,
86 but depending on your specific installation, you may not
87 have all the libraries/tools needed, or you may have
88 necessary libraries at unusual locations. Please look at the
89 top of the Makefile to see what can be adjusted for your needs.
90 You can place local settings in config.mak and the Makefile
91 will include them. Note that config.mak is not distributed;
92 the name is reserved for local settings.
94 - To build and install documentation suite, you need to have
95 the asciidoc/xmlto toolchain. Because not many people are
96 inclined to install the tools, the default build target
97 ("make all") does _not_ build them.
99 Building and installing the info file additionally requires
100 makeinfo and docbook2X. Version 0.8.3 is known to work.
102 The documentation is written for AsciiDoc 7, but "make
103 ASCIIDOC8=YesPlease doc" will let you format with AsciiDoc 8.
105 Alternatively, pre-formatted documentation are available in
106 "html" and "man" branches of the git repository itself. For
109 $ mkdir manual && cd manual
111 $ git fetch-pack git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git man html |
116 $ cp .git/refs/heads/man .git/refs/heads/master
119 to checkout the pre-built man pages. Also in this repository:
123 would instead give you a copy of what you see at:
125 http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/
127 It has been reported that docbook-xsl version 1.72 and 1.73 are
128 buggy; 1.72 misformats manual pages for callouts, and 1.73 needs
129 the patch in contrib/patches/docbook-xsl-manpages-charmap.patch