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| author |  J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> | 2006-01-21 18:54:12 -0500 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-01-21 19:24:55 -0800 |
| commit | eff351c957975055643f2e1359652ab3aac30256 (patch) | |
| tree | d33e82bed5ae0898aecf86cf31018b5229b5514d /INSTALL | |
| parent | Document git-ls-files --directory (diff) | |
| download | tgif-eff351c957975055643f2e1359652ab3aac30256.tar.xz | |
Mention install-doc in INSTALL
I think most people will want to install the man pages as well.
[jc: incorporated Pasky's comment on not building them as root.
Some people may not want to install asciidoc/xmlto toolchain, so
redirect them to the man and html branches of the git.git
repository as well.]
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 28 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -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 ;# as yourself - # make prefix=/usr install ;# as root + $ 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, @@ -90,3 +90,27 @@ Issues of note: 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 clone-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/ + |