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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY git-root "&kernel-dl;/software/scm/git" >
8
9 <!ENTITY git-download-http "&git-root;/git-&git-version;.tar.xz">
10 <!ENTITY git-download-ftp " ">
11 <!ENTITY git-md5sum "51bd18a1af964dd3b1c7b0220889ebb6">
12
13 <!ENTITY git-size "6.2 MB">
14 <!-- using gcc-8.1 the build and install are much bigger than with gcc-7.3 -->
15 <!-- but people keep forgetting that an install not only needs the nett build
16 space, it also needs the install space (or DESTDIR) -->
17 <!ENTITY git-buildsize "374 MB (with downloaded documentation, add 16 MB to build documentation)">
18 <!-- With 2.23.0, there was a large increase in time for tests. Possibly disk related? -->
19 <!-- Confirmed that it is disk related.-->
20 <!ENTITY git-time "0.3 SBU (with parallelism=4; add 0.4 SBU for building documentation and 1.6 SBU for tests, both with parallelism=4)">
21]>
22
23<sect1 id="git" xreflabel="git-&git-version;">
24 <?dbhtml filename="git.html"?>
25
26 <sect1info>
27 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
28 <date>$Date$</date>
29 </sect1info>
30
31 <title>Git-&git-version;</title>
32
33 <indexterm zone="git">
34 <primary sortas="a-Git">Git</primary>
35 </indexterm>
36
37 <sect2 role="package">
38 <title>Introduction to Git</title>
39
40 <para>
41 <application>Git</application> is a free and open source, distributed
42 version control system designed to handle everything from small to very
43 large projects with speed and efficiency. Every
44 <application>Git</application> clone is a full-fledged repository with
45 complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent
46 on network access or a central server. Branching and merging are fast and
47 easy to do. <application>Git</application> is used for version control of
48 files, much like tools such as <xref linkend="mercurial"/>,
49 <application>Bazaar</application>, <xref linkend="subversion"/>,
50 <ulink url="http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/">CVS</ulink>,
51 <application>Perforce</application>, and
52 <application>Team Foundation Server</application>.
53 </para>
54
55 &lfs101_checked;
56
57 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
58 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
59 <listitem>
60 <para>
61 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&git-download-http;"/>
62 </para>
63 </listitem>
64 <listitem>
65 <para>
66 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&git-download-ftp;"/>
67 </para>
68 </listitem>
69 <listitem>
70 <para>
71 Download MD5 sum: &git-md5sum;
72 </para>
73 </listitem>
74 <listitem>
75 <para>
76 Download size: &git-size;
77 </para>
78 </listitem>
79 <listitem>
80 <para>
81 Estimated disk space required: &git-buildsize;
82 </para>
83 </listitem>
84 <listitem>
85 <para>
86 Estimated build time: &git-time;
87 </para>
88 </listitem>
89 </itemizedlist>
90
91 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
92 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
93 <listitem>
94 <para>
95 <ulink url="&git-root;/git-manpages-&git-version;.tar.xz">
96 &git-root;/git-manpages-&git-version;.tar.xz</ulink>
97 (not needed if you've installed <xref linkend="asciidoc"/>,
98 <xref linkend="xmlto"/>, and prefer to rebuild them)
99 </para>
100 </listitem>
101 <listitem>
102 <para>
103 <ulink url="&git-root;/git-htmldocs-&git-version;.tar.xz">
104 &git-root;/git-htmldocs-&git-version;.tar.xz</ulink>
105 and other docs (not needed if you've installed
106 <xref linkend="asciidoc"/> and want to rebuild the documentation).
107 </para>
108 </listitem>
109 </itemizedlist>
110
111 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Git Dependencies</bridgehead>
112
113 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
114 <para role="recommended">
115 <xref linkend="curl"/> (needed to use <application>Git</application> over
116 http, https, ftp or ftps)
117 </para>
118
119 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
120 <para role="optional">
121 <xref linkend="pcre2"/> (<emphasis>or</emphasis> the deprecated <xref
122 role="nodep" linkend="pcre"/>), in either case configured with
123 <literal>--enable-jit</literal>,
124 <xref linkend="subversion"/> with Perl bindings (for <command>git
125 svn</command>),
126 <xref role="runtime" linkend="tk"/>
127 (gitk, a simple <application>Git</application>
128 repository viewer, uses <application>Tk</application> at runtime), and
129 <xref linkend="valgrind"/>
130 </para>
131
132 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (to create the man pages, html docs
133 and other docs)</bridgehead>
134 <para role="optional">
135 <xref linkend="xmlto"/> and
136 <xref linkend="asciidoc"/> or
137 <ulink url="http://asciidoctor.org/">AsciiDoctor</ulink>, and also
138 <ulink url="http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/">dblatex</ulink>
139 (for the PDF version of the user manual), and
140 <ulink url="http://docbook2x.sourceforge.net/">docbook2x</ulink> to
141 create info pages
142 </para>
143
144 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
145 <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/git"/>
146 </para>
147 </sect2>
148
149 <sect2 role="installation">
150 <title>Installation of Git</title>
151
152 <para>
153 Install <application>Git</application> by running the following
154 commands:
155 </para>
156
157<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
158 --with-gitconfig=/etc/gitconfig \
159 --with-python=python3 &amp;&amp;
160make</userinput></screen>
161
162 <para>
163 You can build the man pages and/or html docs, or
164 use downloaded ones. If you choose to build them, use the next two
165 instructions.
166 </para>
167
168 <para>
169 If you have installed <xref linkend="asciidoc"/> you can
170 create the html version of the man pages and other docs:
171 </para>
172
173<screen remap="doc"><userinput>make html</userinput></screen>
174
175 <para>
176 If you have installed <xref linkend="asciidoc"/> and
177 <xref linkend="xmlto"/> you can create the man pages:
178 </para>
179
180<screen remap="doc"><userinput>make man</userinput></screen>
181
182 <para>
183 The test suite can be run in parallel mode. To run the test suite, issue:
184 <command>make test</command>. If run as a normal user, 0 tests should be
185 reported as failed in the final summary.
186 </para>
187
188 <para>
189 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
190 user:
191 </para>
192
193<screen role="root"><userinput>make perllibdir=/usr/lib/perl5/&lfs-perl-version;/site_perl install</userinput></screen>
194
195<!-- ==== Method 1 for docs ====== -->
196 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">If you created the man pages and/or html docs</bridgehead>
197
198 <para>
199 Install the man pages as the
200 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
201 </para>
202
203<screen role="root"
204 remap="doc"><userinput>make install-man</userinput></screen>
205
206 <para>
207 Install the html docs as the
208 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
209 </para>
210
211<screen role="root"
212 remap="doc"><userinput>make htmldir=/usr/share/doc/git-&git-version; install-html</userinput></screen>
213
214<!-- ==== Method 2 for docs ====== -->
215 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">If you downloaded the man pages and/or html docs</bridgehead>
216
217 <para>
218 If you downloaded the man pages untar them as the
219 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
220 </para>
221
222<screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xf ../git-manpages-&git-version;.tar.xz \
223 -C /usr/share/man --no-same-owner --no-overwrite-dir</userinput></screen>
224
225 <para>
226 If you downloaded the html docs untar them as the
227 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
228 </para>
229
230<screen role="root"><userinput>mkdir -vp /usr/share/doc/git-&git-version; &amp;&amp;
231tar -xf ../git-htmldocs-&git-version;.tar.xz \
232 -C /usr/share/doc/git-&git-version; --no-same-owner --no-overwrite-dir &amp;&amp;
233
234find /usr/share/doc/git-&git-version; -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; &amp;&amp;
235find /usr/share/doc/git-&git-version; -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;</userinput></screen>
236
237<!-- ==== Reorganize docs ====== -->
238 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Reorganize text and html in the html-docs (both methods)</bridgehead>
239
240 <para>
241 For both methods, the html-docs include a lot of plain text files.
242 Reorganize the files as the
243 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
244 </para>
245
246<screen role="root"><userinput>mkdir -vp /usr/share/doc/git-&git-version;/man-pages/{html,text} &amp;&amp;
247mv /usr/share/doc/git-&git-version;/{git*.txt,man-pages/text} &amp;&amp;
248mv /usr/share/doc/git-&git-version;/{git*.,index.,man-pages/}html &amp;&amp;
249
250mkdir -vp /usr/share/doc/git-&git-version;/technical/{html,text} &amp;&amp;
251mv /usr/share/doc/git-&git-version;/technical/{*.txt,text} &amp;&amp;
252mv /usr/share/doc/git-&git-version;/technical/{*.,}html &amp;&amp;
253
254mkdir -vp /usr/share/doc/git-&git-version;/howto/{html,text} &amp;&amp;
255mv /usr/share/doc/git-&git-version;/howto/{*.txt,text} &amp;&amp;
256mv /usr/share/doc/git-&git-version;/howto/{*.,}html &amp;&amp;
257
258sed -i '/^&lt;a href=/s|howto/|&amp;html/|' /usr/share/doc/git-&git-version;/howto-index.html &amp;&amp;
259sed -i '/^\* link:/s|howto/|&amp;html/|' /usr/share/doc/git-&git-version;/howto-index.txt</userinput></screen>
260
261 </sect2>
262
263 <sect2 role="commands">
264 <title>Command Explanations</title>
265
266 <para>
267 <parameter>--with-gitconfig=/etc/gitconfig</parameter>: This sets
268 <filename>/etc/gitconfig</filename> as the file that stores
269 the default, system wide, <application>Git</application>
270 settings.
271 </para>
272
273 <para>
274 <parameter>--with-python=python3</parameter>: Use this switch to use
275 <application>Python 3</application>, instead of the EOL'ed
276 <application>Python 2</application>. Python is used for the
277 <command>git p4</command> interface to Perforce repositories,
278 and also used in some tests.
279 </para>
280
281 <para>
282 <option>--with-libpcre2</option>: Use this switch if
283 <application>PCRE2</application> is installed and has been built with
284 the non-default JIT enabled.
285 </para>
286
287 <para>
288 <option>--with-libpcre</option>: As an alternative to PCRE2, use this
289 switch if the deprecated <application>PCRE</application> is installed
290 and has been built with the non-default JIT enabled.
291 </para>
292
293 <para>
294 <command>tar -xf ../git-manpages-&git-version;.tar.gz -C
295 /usr/share/man --no-same-owner</command>: This untars
296 <filename>git-manpages-&git-version;.tar.gz</filename>. The
297 <option>-C</option> option makes tar change directory to
298 <filename class="directory">/usr/share/man</filename> before
299 it starts to decompress the docs. The <option>--no-same-owner</option>
300 option stops tar from preserving the user and group details of the
301 files. This is useful as that user or group may not exist on your
302 system; this could (potentially) be a security risk.
303 </para>
304
305 <para>
306 <command>mv /usr/share/doc/git-&git-version; ...</command>: These
307 commands move some of the files into subfolders to make it easier to sort
308 through the docs and find what you're looking for.
309 </para>
310
311 <para>
312 <command>find ... chmod ...</command>: These commands correct the
313 permissions in the shipped documentation tar file.
314 </para>
315
316 </sect2>
317
318 <sect2 role="configuration">
319 <title>Configuring Git</title>
320
321 <sect3 id="git-config">
322 <title>Config Files</title>
323 <para>
324 <filename>~/.gitconfig</filename> and
325 <filename>/etc/gitconfig</filename>
326 </para>
327
328 <indexterm zone="git git-config">
329 <primary sortas="e-AA.gitconfig">~/.gitconfig</primary>
330 </indexterm>
331
332 <indexterm zone="git git-config">
333 <primary sortas="e-etc-gitconfig">/etc/gitconfig</primary>
334 </indexterm>
335
336 </sect3>
337
338 </sect2>
339
340 <sect2 role="content">
341 <title>Contents</title>
342
343 <segmentedlist>
344 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
345 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
346 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
347
348 <seglistitem>
349 <seg>
350 git, git-receive-pack, git-upload-archive, and
351 git-upload-pack (hardlinked to each
352 other), git-cvsserver, git-shell, and gitk
353 </seg>
354 <seg>
355 None
356 </seg>
357 <seg>
358 /usr/libexec/git-core, and
359 /usr/share/{doc/git-&git-version;,git-core,git-gui,gitk,gitweb}
360 </seg>
361 </seglistitem>
362 </segmentedlist>
363
364 <variablelist>
365 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
366 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
367 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
368
369 <varlistentry id="git-prog">
370 <term><command>git</command></term>
371 <listitem>
372 <para>
373 is the stupid content tracker
374 </para>
375 <indexterm zone="git git-prog">
376 <primary sortas="b-git">git</primary>
377 </indexterm>
378 </listitem>
379 </varlistentry>
380
381 <varlistentry id="git-cvsserver">
382 <term><command>git-cvsserver</command></term>
383 <listitem>
384 <para>
385 is a CVS server emulator for <application>Git</application>
386 </para>
387 <indexterm zone="git git-cvsserver">
388 <primary sortas="b-git-cvsserver">git-cvsserver</primary>
389 </indexterm>
390 </listitem>
391 </varlistentry>
392
393 <varlistentry id="gitk">
394 <term><command>gitk</command></term>
395 <listitem>
396 <para>
397 is a graphical <application>Git</application> repository browser
398 (needs <xref linkend="tk"/>)
399 </para>
400 <indexterm zone="git gitk">
401 <primary sortas="b-gitk">gitk</primary>
402 </indexterm>
403 </listitem>
404 </varlistentry>
405
406 <varlistentry id="git-receive-pack">
407 <term><command>git-receive-pack</command></term>
408 <listitem>
409 <para>
410 is invoked by <command>git send-pack</command> and updates the
411 repository with the information fed from the remote end
412 </para>
413 <indexterm zone="git git-receive-pack">
414 <primary sortas="b-git-receive-pack">git-receive-pack</primary>
415 </indexterm>
416 </listitem>
417 </varlistentry>
418
419 <varlistentry id="git-shell">
420 <term><command>git-shell</command></term>
421 <listitem>
422 <para>
423 is a login shell for SSH accounts to provide restricted Git
424 access
425 </para>
426 <indexterm zone="git git-shell">
427 <primary sortas="b-git-shell">git-shell</primary>
428 </indexterm>
429 </listitem>
430 </varlistentry>
431
432 <varlistentry id="git-upload-archive">
433 <term><command>git-upload-archive</command></term>
434 <listitem>
435 <para>
436 is invoked by <command>git archive --remote</command> and sends
437 a generated archive to the other end over the git protocol
438 </para>
439 <indexterm zone="git git-upload-archive">
440 <primary sortas="b-git-upload-archive">git-upload-archive</primary>
441 </indexterm>
442 </listitem>
443 </varlistentry>
444
445 <varlistentry id="git-upload-pack">
446 <term><command>git-upload-pack</command></term>
447 <listitem>
448 <para>
449 is invoked by <command>git fetch-pack</command>, it discovers
450 what objects the other side is missing, and sends them after
451 packing
452 </para>
453 <indexterm zone="git git-upload-pack">
454 <primary sortas="b-git-upload-pack">git-upload-pack</primary>
455 </indexterm>
456 </listitem>
457 </varlistentry>
458
459 </variablelist>
460
461 </sect2>
462
463</sect1>
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