[PATCH v2] INSTALL: Update section on external dependencies
Includes:
- Mention dependency on "core" utilities, including coreutils, sed, cut, grep
- Mention dependency on cpio
- Fix up some whitespace and linebreaking issues
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
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On Wednesday 03 October 2007, Miklos Vajna wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 05:14:25PM -0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > Are there other commands we rely on that may not be universally
> > installed? I myself consider "cut" to be in the category, but
> > other than that I do not think of anything offhand.
>
> when using git in a chroot, i obviously had coreutils/sed/grep installed
> and the only "extra" package i needed (besides the curl an openssl libs)
> was cpio
Ok, here's a more complete patch.
...Johan
INSTALL | 18 +++++++++++-------
1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 289b046..244470f 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ Issues of note:
- Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external
programs and libraries:
+ - Common "core" utilities including coreutils, sed, cut, and grep.
+
- "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it.
- "openssl". Unless you specify otherwise, you'll get the SHA1
@@ -63,22 +65,24 @@ Issues of note:
that come with git (git includes the one from Mozilla, and has
its own PowerPC and ARM optimized ones too - see the Makefile).
- - "libcurl" and "curl" executable. git-http-fetch and
- git-fetch use them. If you do not use http
- transfer, you are probably OK if you do not have
- them.
+ - "libcurl" and "curl" executable. git-http-fetch and git-fetch
+ use them. If you do not use http transfer, you are probably OK
+ if you do not have them.
- expat library; git-http-push uses it for remote lock
management over DAV. Similar to "curl" above, this is optional.
- - "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
- history graphically, and in git-gui.
+ - "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
+ history graphically, and in git-gui.
- - "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net
+ - "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net.
- "perl" and POSIX-compliant shells are needed to use most of
the barebone Porcelainish scripts.
+ - "cpio" is used by git-merge for saving and restoring the index,
+ and by git-clone when doing a local (possibly hardlinked) clone.
+
- Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules,
but depending on your specific installation, you may not
have all the libraries/tools needed, or you may have
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Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>