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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 95269cc51..f1eb4049b 100644
--- 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,
@@ -56,9 +56,8 @@ 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 +72,16 @@ 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-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
@@ -89,10 +91,20 @@ 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 +123,7 @@ 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