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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 28245b3e6..fce6bc39d 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ 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
+	$ make configure ;# as yourself
 	$ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
 	$ make all doc ;# as yourself
 	# make install install-doc ;# as root
@@ -38,6 +38,19 @@ Issues of note:
    has been actively developed since 1997, and people have moved over to
    graphical file managers.
 
+ - 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
+   arrange a few environment variables to tell them that their
+   friends will be found in your built source area instead of at
+   their standard installation area.  Something like this works
+   for me:
+
+	GIT_EXEC_PATH=`pwd`
+	PATH=`pwd`:$PATH
+	GITPERLLIB=`pwd`/perl/blib/lib
+	export GIT_EXEC_PATH PATH GITPERLLIB
+
  - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external
    programs and libraries:
 
@@ -53,7 +66,7 @@ Issues of note:
 
 	- "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
@@ -78,7 +91,7 @@ Issues of note:
 	  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
+        - "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