Re: [PATCH] Add more instructions about how to install git.

[Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 07:11, Thiago Farina<tfransosi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
> ---
>  INSTALL |    9 +++++++++
>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
> index ae7f750..67abfc7 100644
> --- a/INSTALL
> +++ b/INSTALL
> @@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
>
>                Git installation
>
> +To install git follow these 4 steps inside your git directory:
> +$ autoconf      # Generates the configure file from configure.ac
> +$ ./configure   # Configures everything needed to build git
> +$ make all      # Compiles git based in the Makefile
> +$ make install  # Installs git in your own ~/bin directory
> +
> +If you don't have autoconf installed, you can do this by:
> +$ sudo apt-get install autoconf

... if you're on a Debian-derived system. The other half of the
world, which is RedHat-derived, uses RPM. And there are
other package management tools. Maybe that was a reason
why the instructions weren't included before.