Formalize our dependency on perl 5.8, bumped from 5.6.[12]. We already
used the three-arg form of open() which was introduced in 5.6.1, but
t/t9700/test.pl explicitly depended on 5.6.2.
However git-add--interactive.pl has been failing on the 5.6 line since
it was introduced in v1.5.0-rc0~12^2~2 back in 2006 due to this open
syntax:
sub run_cmd_pipe {
my $fh = undef;
open($fh, '-|', @_) or die;
return <$fh>;
}
Which when executed dies on "Can't use an undefined value as
filehandle reference". Several of our tests also fail on 5.6 (even
more when compiled with NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER=1):
t2016-checkout-patch.sh
t3904-stash-patch.sh
t3701-add-interactive.sh
t7105-reset-patch.sh
t7501-commit.sh
t9700-perl-git.sh
Our code is bitrotting on 5.6 with no-one interested in fixing it, and
pinning us to such an ancient release of Perl is keeping us from using
useful features introduced in the 5.8 release.
The 5.6 series is now over 10 years old, and the 5.6.2 maintenance
release almost 7. 5.8 on the other hand is more than 8 years old.
All the modern Unix-like operating systems have now upgraded to it or
a later version, and 5.8 packages are available for old IRIX, AIX
Solaris and Tru64 systems.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no>
Acked-by: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Without additional configuration steps, the documentation build on Cygwin
fails because the XML catalog is missing required rewrites for certain
docbook resources.
This patch documents the required configuration.
Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The new scripts automatically saved in the bin-wrappers directory allow
you to run a build when you have neither installed git nor tweaked
environment variables. Mention this in INSTALL, along with the slight
performance issue of doing so.
This can be especially handy for manually testing network-invoked git
(from ssh, web servers, or similar), but it is also handy with a plain
command prompt.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_git@miniinfo.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We said that some of our dependencies were optional, but didn't say
how to turn them off. Add information for that and mention where to
save the options close to the top of the file.
Also, standardize on both using quotes for the names of the dependencies
and tabs for indentation of the list.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <brian@gernhardtsoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.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>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We haven't had Mozilla's code or an ARM optimized algorithm since
30ae47b. Reword the paragraph to give credit but not authorship to
Mozilla.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <brian@gernhardtsoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use dblatex in order to create a pdf version of the git user manual. No
existing Makefile targets (including "all") are touched, so you need to
explicitly say
make pdf
sudo make install-pdf
to get user-manual.pdf created and installed.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This introduces new build targets "man" and "html" which allow building
the documentation in the respective formats separately. This helps
people with a partial documentation build chain: html pages can be built
without xmlto.
This is documented in INSTALL now, together with corrections: Before,
instructions in INSTALL would build man+html but install man only. Now
the instructions build and install both, and new and pre-existing
targets are explained.
Note that build targets "doc" and "man" correspond to install targets
"install-doc install-html" and "install-doc" respectively. This
inconsistency is not changed, in order to keep everyone's build scripts
from breaking.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch introduces a make target "quick-install-html" which installs
the html documentation from the branch origin/html, without the need for
asciidoc/xmlto. This is analogous to the existing "quick-install-doc"
target for the man pages.
We advertise these targets in the INSTALL file now.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The mention of 1997 was correct when it was made, and it still is true
to some extent (http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=5189
says it has not been actively maintained for quite some time). However,
because its name changed not to conflict with us, it is no longer
relevant whether many users use gnuit or have moved away to graphical
file managers.
The only people possibly affected are people who have older version of
gnuit installed as "git".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The old text stated that 'git-frotz' can be always used instead of 'git
frotz' which is no longer true.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-clone.sh was the last user of the "curl" executable. Relevant git
commands now use libcurl instead. This should be reflected in the
install requirements.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In recent versions GNU's git has been renamed to gnuit, document this
while talking about how to resolve the conflict.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since a64d7784e8 git merge doesn't use cpio
anymore, adapt the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We haven't used bignum in rev-list from openssl nor elsewhere
for a long time. Also git-gui is now part of git.git itself,
and depends on wish.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have
crept in to our source files over time. There are a few files that need
to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors). The results
still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While 'init-db' still is and probably will always remain a valid git
command for obvious backward compatibility reasons, it would be a good
idea to move shipped tools and docs to using 'init' instead.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Since a long time, we have inbuilt diff generation.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Now that we have git-merge-file, an RCS merge lookalike, we no longer
need it. So long, merge, and thanks for all the fish!
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The distinction between BASIC_ vs ALL_ is still kept, since it
is not Git.xs specific -- we could face the same issue when we
do other language bindings (e.g. Python).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
While at it fill git version information in configure.ac
configure target needs autoconf, of course.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This makes the Git perl scripts check $GITPERLLIB instead of
$RUNNING_GIT_TESTS, which makes more sense if you are setting up your shell
environment to use a non-installed Git instance.
It also weeds out the @INC munging from the individual scripts and makes
Makefile add it during the .perl files processing, so that we can change
just a single place when we modify this shared logic. It looks ugly in the
scripts, too. ;-)
And instead of doing arcane things with the @INC array, we just do 'use lib'
instead, which is essentialy the same thing anyway.
I first want to do three separate patches but it turned out that it's quite
a lot neater when bundled together, so I hope it's ok.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is beginning of patch series introducing installation configuration
using autoconf (and no other autotools) to git. The idea is to generate
config.mak.autogen using ./configure (generated from configure.ac by running
autoconf) from config.mak.in, so one can use autoconf as an _alternative_ to
ordinary Makefile, and creating one's own config.mak. Local settings in
config.mak override generated settings in config.mak.autogen
This patch includes minimal configure.ac and config.mak.in, so one can set
installation directories using autoconf generated ./configure script
e.g. ./configure --prefix=/usr
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The program is not used by git-clone since git-fetch-pack was extended
to allow its caller do what git-clone-pack alone did, and git-clone was
updated to use it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Well, assuming breaking --merge-order is fine, here's a patch (on top of
the other ones) that makes
git log <filename>
actually work, as far as I can tell.
I didn't add the logic for --before/--after flags, but that should be
pretty trivial, and is independent of this anyway.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I think most people will want to install the man pages as well.
[jc: incorporated Pasky's comment on not building them as root.
Some people may not want to install asciidoc/xmlto toolchain, so
redirect them to the man and html branches of the git.git
repository as well.]
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The existing config.mak should satisfy almost everyone... You
can change the prefix and other vars catch the new setting
anyways. I had forgotten that ?= acts as = (lazy value binding)
and as not := (immediate value binding).
Signed-off-by: E. Jason Riedy <ejr@cs.berkeley.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
There are several undocumented dependencies in the .spec and in the
INSTALL files. The following is from Fedora, perhaps other RPM
distributions call the packages differently.
Also, the manpages aren't always installed gzipped.
Updates to git-core.spec.in file:
- Some git scripts use Perl
- gitk needs wish, which is part of TCL/Tk.
- curl is used all over
- Need the ssh program from openssh-clients
Updates to INSTALL:
- Mention wish
- Mention ssh
Signed-off-by: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
As promised, this is the "big tool rename" patch. The primary differences
since 0.99.6 are:
(1) git-*-script are no more. The commands installed do not
have any such suffix so users do not have to remember if
something is implemented as a shell script or not.
(2) Many command names with 'cache' in them are renamed with
'index' if that is what they mean.
There are backward compatibility symblic links so that you and
Porcelains can keep using the old names, but the backward
compatibility support is expected to be removed in the near
future.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Not just libcurl, but now we require curl executable as well.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jens was the second person who hadn't heard of the "merge" program, and
didn't have it installed. So document as many dependency and install
issues as I can think of.
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason