Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] INSTALL: Reorder dependencies, split shell and Perl
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:47:22
Brian Gernhardt [off-list ref] writes:
quoted hunk
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 <redacted> --- 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.