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@@ -38,13 +38,17 @@ Issues of note: Interactive Tools package still can install "git", but you can build it with --disable-transition option to avoid this. - - 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: + - You can use git after building but without installing if you want + to test drive it. Simply run git found in bin-wrappers directory + in the build directory, or prepend that directory to your $PATH. + This however is less efficient than running an installed git, as + you always need an extra fork+exec to run any git subcommand. + + It is still possible to use git without installing by setting a few + environment variables, which was the way this was done + traditionally. But using git found in bin-wrappers directory in + the build directory is far simpler. As a historical reference, the + old way went like this: GIT_EXEC_PATH=`pwd` PATH=`pwd`:$PATH |