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[PATCH] Mention install-doc in INSTALL

From
JFJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date
Jan 21, 2006, 23:54 UTC
Message-ID
<E1F0SYe-0005ix-WB@puzzle.fieldses.org>
I think most people will want to install the man pages as well.

(I'm less sure about the case of the home directory, as I assume there's unlikely to be a reasonable place to install man pages to in that case.)

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
---
 INSTALL |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
81333d4427d75d039c6b5b5bd3c5b71e236ff187
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 916ddd4..6fb826a 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ will install the git programs in your ow
 to do a global install, you can do
 
 	$ make prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
-	# make prefix=/usr install ;# as root
+	# make prefix=/usr install install-doc ;# as root
 
 (or prefix=/usr/local, of course).  Just like any program suite
 that uses $prefix, the built results have some paths encoded,
-- 
0.99.8b-g58e3
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  1. Mention install-doc in INSTALLJ. Bruce Fields, Jan 21, 2006
  2. Petr BaudisJan 22, 2006
  3. Junio C HamanoJan 22, 2006
  4. J. Bruce FieldsJan 22, 2006

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