INSTALL: Reorder dependencies, split shell and Perl
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@gernhardtsoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -52,6 +52,15 @@ Issues of note:
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- "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it.
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+ - "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net.
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+ - A POSIX-compliant shell is required to run many scripts needed
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+ for everyday use (e.g. "bisect", "pull").
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+ - "Perl" is needed to use some of the features (e.g. preparing a
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+ partial commit using "git add -i/-p", interacting with svn
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+ repositories with "git svn").
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- "openssl". Unless you specify otherwise, you'll get the SHA1
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library from here.
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@@ -70,11 +79,6 @@ Issues of note:
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- "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
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history graphically, and in git-gui.
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- - "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net
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-
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- - "perl" and POSIX-compliant shells are needed to use most of
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- the bare-bones Porcelainish scripts.
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- Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules,
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but depending on your specific installation, you may not
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have all the libraries/tools needed, or you may have