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[PATCH] Add more instructions about how to install git.

From
Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 8, 2009, 05:11 UTC
Message-ID
<1252386686-15689-1-git-send-email-tfransosi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
---
 INSTALL |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index ae7f750..67abfc7 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
 
 		Git installation
 
+To install git follow these 4 steps inside your git directory:
+$ autoconf      # Generates the configure file from configure.ac
+$ ./configure   # Configures everything needed to build git
+$ make all      # Compiles git based in the Makefile
+$ make install  # Installs git in your own ~/bin directory
+
+If you don't have autoconf installed, you can do this by:
+$ sudo apt-get install autoconf
+
 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
-- 
1.6.0.4
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