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[PATCH] Fix wrong info in `INSTALL`

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SGShao-Ce SUN via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date
May 24, 2022, 20:43 UTC
Message-ID
<pull.1241.git.1653424998869.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
From: Shao-Ce SUN <sunshaoce@iscas.ac.cn>
The user prompt should be `$` instead of `#`.
Signed-off-by: Shao-Ce SUN <sunshaoce@iscas.ac.cn>
---
    Fix wrong info in INSTALL
    
    The user prompt should be $ instead of #.
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1241%2Fsunshaoce%2Finstall-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1241/sunshaoce/install-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1241
 INSTALL | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 4140a3f5c8b..7bb3f48311d 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ 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
 
-	$ make prefix=/usr all doc info ;# as yourself
-	# make prefix=/usr install install-doc install-html install-info ;# as root
+	$ make prefix=/usr all doc info ; $ as yourself
+	# make prefix=/usr install install-doc install-html install-info ; # as root
 
 (or prefix=/usr/local, of course).  Just like any program suite
 that uses $prefix, the built results have some paths encoded,
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ config.mak file.
 Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to
 set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write instead
 
-	$ make configure ;# as yourself
-	$ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
-	$ make all doc ;# as yourself
-	# make install install-doc install-html;# as root
+	$ make configure ; $ as yourself
+	$ ./configure --prefix=/usr ; $ as yourself
+	$ make all doc ; $ as yourself
+	# make install install-doc install-html; # as root
 
 If you're willing to trade off (much) longer build time for a later
 faster git you can also do a profile feedback build with

base-commit: 7a3eb286977746bc09a5de7682df0e5a7085e17c
-- 
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