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2008-02-01T02:14:29Z

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= Installing GIT on your system =

To work with the latest development sources, you need
the [http://git.or.cz/ <tt>git</tt>] source control package.

== Download and install the <tt>git</tt> source control tools ==

The usual way to get the very latest version of <tt>git</tt> is to
browse the [http://git.or.cz/ official GIT web site] for a recent
source package and follow the instructions to install.

However, here are a few possible shortcuts.

First determine whether you already have <tt>git</tt> installed. Try:

$ git

which outputs a help page if <tt>git</tt> is installed properly.

On Fedora Core 6 (FC6) and similar Linux host distributions,
you can use <tt>yum</tt> to find and install a working version of <tt>git</tt>:

$ sudo yum install git

On FC3, <tt>yum</tt> doesn't know about git, so you have to do something like:

$ cd /tmp
$ lwp-download http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.5.3.1.tar.bz2
$ tar xfj git-1.5.3.1.tar.bz2
$ cd git-1.5.3.1
$ make prefix=/usr/local all
$ sudo make prefix=/usr/local install

and make sure <tt>/usr/local/bin</tt> is in your PATH.
Unlike the other methods, however, the above sequence doesn't
install git documentation. For that, you have
to build <tt>doc</tt> and <tt>info</tt> make targets, which require first
installing other packages such as <tt>asciidoc</tt> and others.
Or, you can find documentation online (see below).

== GIT Documentation ==

If <tt>git</tt> is fully installed, you should be able to get manual pages
using <tt>man git</tt> and <tt>git help</tt>.

You can find online documentation such as a
[http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/tutorial.html tutorial]
and [http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/ manual pages].

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