X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=4a4e13fe46567a567b1ceb09a792379674dc6f57;hb=58eda02257a89df6e05f504bdf87e578d90f3b5e;hp=f1eb4049b9f839c1b3d1aa5a4d7387d0e93f0f5c;hpb=071a8877662974f588dfc0b1ac7df2764b7e0337;p=git.git diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index f1eb4049b..4a4e13fe4 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -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 @@ -63,10 +67,10 @@ Issues of note: that come with git (git includes the one from Mozilla, and has its own PowerPC and ARM optimized ones too - see the Makefile). - - "libcurl" and "curl" executable. git-http-fetch and - git-fetch use them. If you do not use http - transfer, you are probably OK if you do not have - them. + - libcurl library; git-http-fetch and git-fetch use them. You + might also want the "curl" executable for debugging purposes. + If you do not use http transfer, you are probably OK if you + do not have them. - expat library; git-http-push uses it for remote lock management over DAV. Similar to "curl" above, this is optional. @@ -79,9 +83,6 @@ Issues of note: - "perl" and POSIX-compliant shells are needed to use most of the barebone Porcelainish scripts. - - "cpio" is used by git-merge for saving and restoring the index, - and 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