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-html 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 The beginning of the Makefile documents many variables that affect the way
17 git is built. You can override them either from the command line, or in a
20 Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to
21 set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write instead
23 $ make configure ;# as yourself
24 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
25 $ make all doc ;# as yourself
26 # make install install-doc install-html;# as root
31 - Ancient versions of GNU Interactive Tools (pre-4.9.2) installed a
32 program "git", whose name conflicts with this program. But with
33 version 4.9.2, after long hiatus without active maintenance (since
34 around 1997), it changed its name to gnuit and the name conflict is no
37 NOTE: When compiled with backward compatibility option, the GNU
38 Interactive Tools package still can install "git", but you can build it
39 with --disable-transition option to avoid this.
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. Git can be used without most of them by adding
56 the approriate "NO_<LIBRARY>=YesPlease" to the make command line or
59 - "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it.
61 - "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net.
63 - A POSIX-compliant shell is required to run many scripts needed
64 for everyday use (e.g. "bisect", "pull").
66 - "Perl" is needed to use some of the features (e.g. preparing a
67 partial commit using "git add -i/-p", interacting with svn
68 repositories with "git svn"). If you can live without these, use
71 - "openssl" library is used by git-imap-send to use IMAP over SSL.
72 If you don't need it, use NO_OPENSSL.
74 By default, git uses OpenSSL for SHA1 but it will use it's own
75 library (inspired by Mozilla's) with either NO_OPENSSL or
76 BLK_SHA1. Also included is a version optimized for PowerPC
79 - "libcurl" library is used by git-http-fetch and git-fetch. You
80 might also want the "curl" executable for debugging purposes.
81 If you do not use http:// or https:// repositories, you do not
82 have to have them (use NO_CURL).
84 - "expat" library; git-http-push uses it for remote lock
85 management over DAV. Similar to "curl" above, this is optional
88 - "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
89 history graphically, and in git-gui. If you don't want gitk or
90 git-gui, you can use NO_TCLTK.
92 - Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules,
93 but depending on your specific installation, you may not
94 have all the libraries/tools needed, or you may have
95 necessary libraries at unusual locations. Please look at the
96 top of the Makefile to see what can be adjusted for your needs.
97 You can place local settings in config.mak and the Makefile
98 will include them. Note that config.mak is not distributed;
99 the name is reserved for local settings.
101 - To build and install documentation suite, you need to have
102 the asciidoc/xmlto toolchain. Because not many people are
103 inclined to install the tools, the default build target
104 ("make all") does _not_ build them.
106 "make doc" builds documentation in man and html formats; there are
107 also "make man", "make html" and "make info". Note that "make html"
108 requires asciidoc, but not xmlto. "make man" (and thus make doc)
111 "make install-doc" installs documentation in man format only; there
112 are also "make install-man", "make install-html" and "make
115 Building and installing the info file additionally requires
116 makeinfo and docbook2X. Version 0.8.3 is known to work.
118 Building and installing the pdf file additionally requires
119 dblatex. Version 0.2.7 with asciidoc >= 8.2.7 is known to work.
121 The documentation is written for AsciiDoc 7, but "make
122 ASCIIDOC8=YesPlease doc" will let you format with AsciiDoc 8.
124 Alternatively, pre-formatted documentation is available in
125 "html" and "man" branches of the git repository itself. For
128 $ mkdir manual && cd manual
130 $ git fetch-pack git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git man html |
135 $ cp .git/refs/heads/man .git/refs/heads/master
138 to checkout the pre-built man pages. Also in this repository:
142 would instead give you a copy of what you see at:
144 http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/
146 There are also "make quick-install-doc", "make quick-install-man"
147 and "make quick-install-html" which install preformatted man pages
148 and html documentation.
149 This does not require asciidoc/xmlto, but it only works from within
150 a cloned checkout of git.git with these two extra branches, and will
151 not work for the maintainer for obvious chicken-and-egg reasons.
153 It has been reported that docbook-xsl version 1.72 and 1.73 are
154 buggy; 1.72 misformats manual pages for callouts, and 1.73 needs
155 the patch in contrib/patches/docbook-xsl-manpages-charmap.patch