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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index bbb9d4dc9..6fa83fe2b 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -83,7 +83,11 @@ Issues of note:
 	- "Perl" version 5.8 or later is needed to use some of the
 	  features (e.g. preparing a partial commit using "git add -i/-p",
 	  interacting with svn repositories with "git svn").  If you can
-	  live without these, use NO_PERL.
+	  live without these, use NO_PERL.  Note that recent releases of
+	  Redhat/Fedora are reported to ship Perl binary package with some
+	  core modules stripped away (see http://lwn.net/Articles/477234/),
+	  so you might need to install additional packages other than Perl
+	  itself, e.g. Time::HiRes.
 
 	- "openssl" library is used by git-imap-send to use IMAP over SSL.
 	  If you don't need it, use NO_OPENSSL.
@@ -106,6 +110,18 @@ Issues of note:
 	  history graphically, and in git-gui.  If you don't want gitk or
 	  git-gui, you can use NO_TCLTK.
 
+	- A gettext library is used by default for localizing Git. The
+	  primary target is GNU libintl, but the Solaris gettext
+	  implementation also works.
+
+	  We need a gettext.h on the system for C code, gettext.sh (or
+	  Solaris gettext(1)) for shell scripts, and libintl-perl for Perl
+	  programs.
+
+	  Set NO_GETTEXT to disable localization support and make Git only
+	  use English. Under autoconf the configure script will do this
+	  automatically if it can't find libintl on the system.
+
  - 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
@@ -139,34 +155,11 @@ Issues of note:
    uses some compatibility wrappers to work on AsciiDoc 8. If you have
    AsciiDoc 7, try "make ASCIIDOC7=YesPlease".
 
-   Alternatively, pre-formatted documentation is available in
-   "html" and "man" branches of the git repository itself.  For
-   example, you could:
-
-	$ mkdir manual && cd manual
-	$ git init
-	$ git fetch-pack git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git man html |
-	  while read a b
-	  do
-	    echo $a >.git/$b
-	  done
-	$ cp .git/refs/heads/man .git/refs/heads/master
-	$ git checkout
-
-   to checkout the pre-built man pages.  Also in this repository:
-
-	$ git checkout html
-
-   would instead give you a copy of what you see at:
-
-	http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/
-
    There are also "make quick-install-doc", "make quick-install-man"
    and "make quick-install-html" which install preformatted man pages
-   and html documentation.
-   This does not require asciidoc/xmlto, but it only works from within
-   a cloned checkout of git.git with these two extra branches, and will
-   not work for the maintainer for obvious chicken-and-egg reasons.
+   and html documentation. To use these build targets, you need to
+   clone two separate git-htmldocs and git-manpages repositories next
+   to the clone of git itself.
 
    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