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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 14580cc47..ba9778cd4 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -5,10 +5,22 @@ 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 install
+	$ make prefix=/usr all doc ;# as yourself
+	# make prefix=/usr install install-doc ;# as root
+
+(or prefix=/usr/local, of course).  Just like any program suite
+that uses $prefix, the built results have some paths encoded,
+which are derived from $prefix, so "make all; make prefix=/usr
+install" would not work.
+
+Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to
+set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write instead
+
+	$ autoconf ;# as yourself if ./configure doesn't exist yet
+	$ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
+	$ make all doc ;# as yourself
+	# make install install-doc ;# as root
 
-(or prefix=/usr/local, of course).  Some day somebody may send me a RPM
-spec file or something, and you can do "make rpm" or whatever.
 
 Issues of note:
 
@@ -37,15 +49,16 @@ Issues of note:
 
 	  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
-	  its own PowerPC-optimized one too - see the Makefile), and you
-	  can avoid the bignum support by excising git-rev-list support
-	  for "--merge-order" (by hand).
+	  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 probabaly OK if you do not have
+	  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.
+
 	- "GNU diff" to generate patches.  Of course, you don't _have_ to
 	  generate patches if you don't want to, but let's face it, you'll
 	  be wanting to. Or why did you get git in the first place?
@@ -64,3 +77,47 @@ Issues of note:
 	  You'll only need the merge program if you do development using
 	  git, and if you only use git to track other peoples work you'll
 	  never notice the lack of it. 
+
+        - "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
+          history graphically
+
+	- "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.
+
+	- "python" 2.3 or more recent; if you have 2.3, you may need
+          to build with "make WITH_OWN_SUBPROCESS_PY=YesPlease".
+
+ - 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
+   necessary libraries at unusual locations.  Please look at the
+   top of the Makefile to see what can be adjusted for your needs.
+   You can place local settings in config.mak and the Makefile
+   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:
+
+	$ mkdir manual && cd manual
+	$ git init-db
+	$ 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/
+