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 want
42 to test drive it. Simply run git found in bin-wrappers directory
43 in the build directory, or prepend that directory to your $PATH.
44 This however is less efficient than running an installed git, as
45 you always need an extra fork+exec to run any git subcommand.
47 It is still possible to use git without installing by setting a few
48 environment variables, which was the way this was done
49 traditionally. But using git found in bin-wrappers directory in
50 the build directory is far simpler. As a historical reference, the
51 old way went like this:
55 GITPERLLIB=`pwd`/perl/blib/lib
56 export GIT_EXEC_PATH PATH GITPERLLIB
58 - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external
59 programs and libraries. Git can be used without most of them by adding
60 the approriate "NO_<LIBRARY>=YesPlease" to the make command line or
63 - "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it.
65 - "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net.
67 - A POSIX-compliant shell is required to run many scripts needed
68 for everyday use (e.g. "bisect", "pull").
70 - "Perl" is needed to use some of the features (e.g. preparing a
71 partial commit using "git add -i/-p", interacting with svn
72 repositories with "git svn"). If you can live without these, use
75 - "openssl" library is used by git-imap-send to use IMAP over SSL.
76 If you don't need it, use NO_OPENSSL.
78 By default, git uses OpenSSL for SHA1 but it will use it's own
79 library (inspired by Mozilla's) with either NO_OPENSSL or
80 BLK_SHA1. Also included is a version optimized for PowerPC
83 - "libcurl" library is used by git-http-fetch and git-fetch. You
84 might also want the "curl" executable for debugging purposes.
85 If you do not use http:// or https:// repositories, you do not
86 have to have them (use NO_CURL).
88 - "expat" library; git-http-push uses it for remote lock
89 management over DAV. Similar to "curl" above, this is optional
92 - "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
93 history graphically, and in git-gui. If you don't want gitk or
94 git-gui, you can use NO_TCLTK.
96 - Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules,
97 but depending on your specific installation, you may not
98 have all the libraries/tools needed, or you may have
99 necessary libraries at unusual locations. Please look at the
100 top of the Makefile to see what can be adjusted for your needs.
101 You can place local settings in config.mak and the Makefile
102 will include them. Note that config.mak is not distributed;
103 the name is reserved for local settings.
105 - To build and install documentation suite, you need to have
106 the asciidoc/xmlto toolchain. Because not many people are
107 inclined to install the tools, the default build target
108 ("make all") does _not_ build them.
110 "make doc" builds documentation in man and html formats; there are
111 also "make man", "make html" and "make info". Note that "make html"
112 requires asciidoc, but not xmlto. "make man" (and thus make doc)
115 "make install-doc" installs documentation in man format only; there
116 are also "make install-man", "make install-html" and "make
119 Building and installing the info file additionally requires
120 makeinfo and docbook2X. Version 0.8.3 is known to work.
122 Building and installing the pdf file additionally requires
123 dblatex. Version 0.2.7 with asciidoc >= 8.2.7 is known to work.
125 The documentation is written for AsciiDoc 7, but "make
126 ASCIIDOC8=YesPlease doc" will let you format with AsciiDoc 8.
128 Alternatively, pre-formatted documentation is available in
129 "html" and "man" branches of the git repository itself. For
132 $ mkdir manual && cd manual
134 $ git fetch-pack git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git man html |
139 $ cp .git/refs/heads/man .git/refs/heads/master
142 to checkout the pre-built man pages. Also in this repository:
146 would instead give you a copy of what you see at:
148 http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/
150 There are also "make quick-install-doc", "make quick-install-man"
151 and "make quick-install-html" which install preformatted man pages
152 and html documentation.
153 This does not require asciidoc/xmlto, but it only works from within
154 a cloned checkout of git.git with these two extra branches, and will
155 not work for the maintainer for obvious chicken-and-egg reasons.
157 It has been reported that docbook-xsl version 1.72 and 1.73 are
158 buggy; 1.72 misformats manual pages for callouts, and 1.73 needs
159 the patch in contrib/patches/docbook-xsl-manpages-charmap.patch
161 Users attempting to build the documentation on Cygwin may need to ensure
162 that the /etc/xml/catalog file looks something like this:
164 <?xml version="1.0"?>
165 <!DOCTYPE catalog PUBLIC
166 "-//OASIS//DTD Entity Resolution XML Catalog V1.0//EN"
167 "http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/release/1.0/catalog.dtd"
169 <catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog">
171 uriStartString = "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current"
172 rewritePrefix = "/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets"
175 uriStartString="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5"
176 rewritePrefix="/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5"
180 This can be achieved with the following two xmlcatalog commands:
184 http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current \
185 /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets \
190 http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/xsl/current \
191 /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5 \