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@@ -109,15 +109,15 @@ Issues of note: - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external programs and libraries. Git can be used without most of them by adding - the approriate "NO_<LIBRARY>=YesPlease" to the make command line or + the appropriate "NO_<LIBRARY>=YesPlease" to the make command line or config.mak file. - "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"). + - A POSIX-compliant shell is required to run some scripts needed + for everyday use (e.g. "bisect", "request-pull"). - "Perl" version 5.8 or later is needed to use some of the features (e.g. preparing a partial commit using "git add -i/-p", @@ -206,9 +206,7 @@ Issues of note: clone two separate git-htmldocs and git-manpages repositories next to the clone of git itself. - 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 + The minimum supported version of docbook-xsl is 1.74. Users attempting to build the documentation on Cygwin may need to ensure that the /etc/xml/catalog file looks something like this: |