Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:
But it looks from the output like it just mentions every prereq that
wasn't satisfied. I don't think that's particularly useful to show for
all users, since most of them are platform things that cannot be changed
(and you'd never get the list to zero, since some of them are mutually
exclusive).
The only thing that could be of interest is "We are skipping tests
around $SVN, because your Git was built without a feature that
requires platform support of feature $SVN, which in turn was caused
because NO_$SVN=UnfortunatelyYes was in your config.mak.autogen
file. You could 'apt-get install $SVN' to lift this artificial
limitation in your Git if you wanted to".
But the test prereq is probably a bit too roundabout way for that
kind of information ;-)