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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 79e71b692..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,
@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ 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
@@ -91,9 +94,13 @@ Issues of note:
  - 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.  The documentation is
-   written for AsciiDoc 7, but "make ASCIIDOC8=YesPlease doc"
-   will let you format with AsciiDoc 8.
+   ("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
@@ -116,3 +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