Brian Gernhardt <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > 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. -- 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