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From: Brian Gernhardt <brian@gernhardtsoftware.com>
To: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/3] INSTALL: Reorder dependencies, split shell and Perl
Date: Tue,  8 Sep 2009 21:51:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1252461061-75840-3-git-send-email-brian@gernhardtsoftware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1252461061-75840-1-git-send-email-brian@gernhardtsoftware.com>

The most important and non-optional dependencies should go first, so put
them there.  While we're moving them, the descriptions for shell and perl
were archaic, referring to "bare-bones Porcelainish scripts" that have
become powerful and essential.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <brian@gernhardtsoftware.com>
---

 Split from v1's 2/2 so the changes don't get confused with the re-order.

 I kept the shell and perl re-wordings here since they're also somewhat of
 a factual error instead of 3/3's additions.

 INSTALL |   14 +++++++++-----
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 5267468..7ab2580 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -52,6 +52,15 @@ Issues of note:
 
 	- "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it.
 
+	- "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net.
+
+	- A POSIX-compliant shell is required to run many scripts needed
+	  for everyday use (e.g. "bisect", "pull").
+
+	- "Perl" is needed to use some of the features (e.g. preparing a
+	  partial commit using "git add -i/-p", interacting with svn
+	  repositories with "git svn").
+
 	- "openssl".  Unless you specify otherwise, you'll get the SHA1
 	  library from here.
 
@@ -70,11 +79,6 @@ Issues of note:
         - "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
-
-	- "perl" and POSIX-compliant shells are needed to use most of
-	  the bare-bones Porcelainish scripts.
-
  - 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
-- 
1.6.4.2.420.g30ecf

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-09  1:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-09  1:50 [PATCH v2 0/3] INSTALL updates Brian Gernhardt
2009-09-09  1:50 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] INSTALL: Update description of our SHA-1 code Brian Gernhardt
2009-09-09  1:51 ` Brian Gernhardt [this message]
2009-09-09  6:01   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] INSTALL: Reorder dependencies, split shell and Perl Junio C Hamano
2009-09-09  1:51 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] INSTALL: Describe dependency knobs from Makefile Brian Gernhardt
2009-09-09  6:16   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-10 14:12     ` [PATCH v3 " Brian Gernhardt
2009-09-10 18:56       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-10 20:28         ` Brian Gernhardt

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