From: Thiago Farina Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:11:26 GMT Subject: [PATCH] Add more instructions about how to install git. Message-ID: <1252386686-15689-1-git-send-email-tfransosi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina --- 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