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| author | Brian Gernhardt <brian@gernhardtsoftware.com> | 2009-09-08 21:51:00 -0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-09-10 21:34:36 -0700 |
| commit | 26d9443925517f6d93dbcb6f4eca30af82703de3 (patch) | |
| tree | ab0c83476f58742630675dca0fa98e0b0d121dda /INSTALL | |
| parent | 1d7367dce7b55cbb1804c4863c56bd20ab12bda8 (diff) | |
INSTALL: Reorder dependencies, split shell and Perl
The most important and non-optional dependencies should go first, so put them there. While we're moving them, the descriptions for shell and perl were archaic, referring to "bare-bones Porcelainish scripts" that have become powerful and essential. Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <brian@gernhardtsoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 5267468f09..7ab2580ede 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -52,6 +52,15 @@ Issues of note: - "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it. + - "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net. + + - A POSIX-compliant shell is required to run many scripts needed + for everyday use (e.g. "bisect", "pull"). + + - "Perl" 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"). + - "openssl". Unless you specify otherwise, you'll get the SHA1 library from here. @@ -70,11 +79,6 @@ Issues of note: - "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the 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 bare-bones Porcelainish scripts. - - 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 |