Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] INSTALL: Reorder dependencies, split shell and Perl

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Brian Gernhardt <brian@gernhardtsoftware.com> writes:

> 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").
> +

This is a very minor point, but should we even make a distinction between
"scripts" vs "features" here?  It is a minor detail that "bisect" and
"pull" are implemented as scripts after all.  I dunno.