From: Shao-Ce SUN <sunshaoce@xxxxxxxxxxx> The user prompt should be `$` instead of `#`. Signed-off-by: Shao-Ce SUN <sunshaoce@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- Fix wrong info in INSTALL The user prompt should be $ instead of #. Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1241%2Fsunshaoce%2Finstall-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1241/sunshaoce/install-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1241 INSTALL | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 4140a3f5c8b..7bb3f48311d 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ Normally you can just do "make" followed by "make install", and that will install the git programs in your own ~/bin/ directory. If you want to do a global install, you can do - $ make prefix=/usr all doc info ;# as yourself - # make prefix=/usr install install-doc install-html install-info ;# as root + $ make prefix=/usr all doc info ; $ as yourself + # make prefix=/usr install install-doc install-html install-info ; # as root (or prefix=/usr/local, of course). Just like any program suite that uses $prefix, the built results have some paths encoded, @@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ config.mak file. Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write instead - $ make configure ;# as yourself - $ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself - $ make all doc ;# as yourself - # make install install-doc install-html;# as root + $ make configure ; $ as yourself + $ ./configure --prefix=/usr ; $ as yourself + $ make all doc ; $ as yourself + # make install install-doc install-html; # as root If you're willing to trade off (much) longer build time for a later faster git you can also do a profile feedback build with base-commit: 7a3eb286977746bc09a5de7682df0e5a7085e17c -- gitgitgadget