From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] INSTALL: Reorder dependencies, split shell and Perl Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:01:46 -0700 Message-ID: <7vws48hd11.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1252461061-75840-1-git-send-email-brian@gernhardtsoftware.com> <1252461061-75840-3-git-send-email-brian@gernhardtsoftware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Git List , Junio C Hamano To: Brian Gernhardt X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 09 08:02:04 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MlGFn-0006kc-VT for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:02:04 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751899AbZIIGBy (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Sep 2009 02:01:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751882AbZIIGBx (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Sep 2009 02:01:53 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:55367 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751290AbZIIGBx (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Sep 2009 02:01:53 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 843732B32A; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 02:01:53 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=F+ngZyORTA2ytmlR0UgjATyKRSs=; b=BEbc6r 0BlE83zRO11IZOJ/f4s4BM+xktqDqMjPp172wNJSOabVto+xan+ieuGbtE2nIKDc KTTfSjBKLN188Jv1h4hPN5LuFQS/3TzkorR/PuloyCJ0gvn66fpIZmShnf6qd1rV eQZDb7sORTfmeWnyYYWCbUx3M+dKa3Fc0QuMo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=djNTamvVztqIqVYt3x2P9N7lHe9MYr6b ZxhAYRzyl8vTU1bICqtzHbl6uerrlmBltzGDTnCTG8eivdkSx2xtyjGyMTgVN87g VZlHNFrzq7ynLFKCooEKojIMbzbz4gH3d4dH2aTxrvR4kOYHWthfQbsPlgrEZ9aU ze8LD/ZH2eI= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67D0C2B329; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 02:01:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9CA722B323; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 02:01:47 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <1252461061-75840-3-git-send-email-brian@gernhardtsoftware.com> (Brian Gernhardt's message of "Tue\, 8 Sep 2009 21\:51\:00 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 4498E46A-9D06-11DE-AC33-A13518FFA523-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Brian Gernhardt 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 > --- > > 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.