builtin-fetch.c (store_updated_refs): Honor update_local_ref() return value

[git.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 95269cc513fab071d96a044b32aec7abb8b3fe7c..d9b425fa73e806751ff2636300ea24bd1e7f1e56 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ Normally you can just do "make" followed by "make install", and that
 will install the git programs in your own ~/bin/ directory.  If you want
 to do a global install, you can do
 
-       $ make prefix=/usr all doc ;# as yourself
-       # make prefix=/usr install install-doc ;# as root
+       $ make prefix=/usr all doc info ;# as yourself
+       # make prefix=/usr install install-doc install-info ;# as root
 
 (or prefix=/usr/local, of course).  Just like any program suite
 that uses $prefix, the built results have some paths encoded,
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ Issues of note:
    has been actively developed since 1997, and people have moved over to
    graphical file managers.
 
+   NOTE: As of gnuit-4.9.2, the GNU interactive tools package has been
+         renamed. You can compile gnuit with the --disable-transition
+         option and then it will not conflict with git.
+
  - You can use git after building but without installing if you
    wanted to.  Various git commands need to find other git
    commands and scripts to do their work, so you would need to
@@ -56,9 +60,8 @@ Issues of note:
 
        - "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it.
 
-       - "openssl".  The git-rev-list program uses bignum support from
-         openssl, and unless you specify otherwise, you'll also get the
-         SHA1 library from here.
+       - "openssl".  Unless you specify otherwise, you'll get the SHA1
+         library from here.
 
          If you don't have openssl, you can use one of the SHA1 libraries
          that come with git (git includes the one from Mozilla, and has
@@ -73,13 +76,16 @@ Issues of note:
          management over DAV.  Similar to "curl" above, this is optional.
 
         - "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
-          history graphically
+          history graphically, and in git-gui.
 
        - "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net
 
        - "perl" and POSIX-compliant shells are needed to use most of
          the barebone Porcelainish scripts.
 
+       - "cpio" is used by git-clone when doing a local (possibly
+         hardlinked) clone.
+
  - Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules,
    but depending on your specific installation, you may not
    have all the libraries/tools needed, or you may have
@@ -89,10 +95,20 @@ Issues of note:
    will include them.  Note that config.mak is not distributed;
    the name is reserved for local settings.
 
- - To build and install documentation suite, you need to have the
-   asciidoc/xmlto toolchain.  Alternatively, pre-formatted
-   documentation are available in "html" and "man" branches of the git
-   repository itself.  For example, you could:
+ - To build and install documentation suite, you need to have
+   the asciidoc/xmlto toolchain.  Because not many people are
+   inclined to install the tools, the default build target
+   ("make all") does _not_ build them.
+
+   Building and installing the info file additionally requires
+   makeinfo and docbook2X.  Version 0.8.3 is known to work.
+
+   The documentation is written for AsciiDoc 7, but "make
+   ASCIIDOC8=YesPlease doc" will let you format with AsciiDoc 8.
+
+   Alternatively, pre-formatted documentation are available in
+   "html" and "man" branches of the git repository itself.  For
+   example, you could:
 
        $ mkdir manual && cd manual
        $ git init
@@ -111,3 +127,7 @@ Issues of note:
    would instead give you a copy of what you see at:
 
        http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/
+
+   It has been reported that docbook-xsl version 1.72 and 1.73 are
+   buggy; 1.72 misformats manual pages for callouts, and 1.73 needs
+   the patch in contrib/patches/docbook-xsl-manpages-charmap.patch