On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 07:11, Thiago Farina<tfransosi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html