git/INSTALL, branch v2.35.2

INSTALL: mention that we need libcurl 7.19.4 or newer to build

2021-09-13T17:39:03Z

Without NO_CURL=Y we require at least version "7.19.4" of libcurl, see 644de29e220 (http: drop support for curl < 7.19.4, 2021-07-30). Let's document this in the "INSTALL" document. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

INSTALL: reword and copy-edit the "libcurl" section

2021-09-12T19:00:15Z

Make the "libcurl" section shorter and more to the point, this is mostly based on suggestions from [1]. 1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/YTtxcBdF2VQdWp5C@coredump.intra.peff.net/ Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

INSTALL: don't mention the "curl" executable at all

2021-09-12T19:00:14Z

In 1d53f90ed97 (The "curl" executable is no longer required, 2008-06-15) the wording for requiring curl(1) was changed to the current "you might also want...". Mentioning the "curl" executable at all is just confusing, someone building git might want to use it to debug things, but they might also just use wget(1) or some other http client. The "curl" executable has the advantage that you might be able to e.g. reproduce a bug in git's usage of libcurl with it, but anyone going to those extents is unlikely to be aided by this note in INSTALL. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

INSTALL: note on using Asciidoctor to build doc

2021-03-19T17:49:20Z

Note on using Asciidoctor to build documentation suite. Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

doc: mention Python 3.x supports

2020-12-14T23:01:03Z

Commit 0b4396f068, (git-p4: make python2.7 the oldest supported version, 2019-12-13) pointed out that git-p4 uses Python 2.7-or-later features in the code. In addition, git-p4 gained enough support for Python 3 from 6cec21a82f, (git-p4: encode/decode communication with p4 for python3, 2019-12-13). Let's update our documentation to reflect that fact. Signed-off-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

INSTALL: drop support for docbook-xsl before 1.74

2020-03-29T16:25:38Z

Several of the previous commits have been bumping the minimum supported version of docbook-xsl and dropping various workarounds. Most recently, we made the minimum be 1.73.0. In INSTALL, we claim that with 1.73, one needs a certain patch in contrib/patches/. There is no such patch. It was added in 2ec39edad9 ("INSTALL: add warning on docbook-xsl 1.72 and 1.73", 2007-08-03) and dropped in 9721ac9010 ("contrib: remove continuous/ and patches/", 2013-06-03). Rather than resurrecting version 1.73 and the patch and testing them, just raise our minimum supported docbook-xsl version to 1.74. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Doc: drop support for docbook-xsl before 1.73.0

2020-03-29T16:25:38Z

Drop the DOCBOOK_XSL_172 config knob, which was needed with docbook-xsl 1.72 (but neither 1.71 nor 1.73). Version 1.73.0 is more than twelve years old. Together with the last few commits, we are now at a point where we don't have any Makefile knobs to cater to old/broken versions of docbook-xsl. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Doc: drop support for docbook-xsl before 1.72.0

2020-03-29T16:25:38Z

docbook-xsl 1.72.0 is thirteen years old. Drop the ASCIIDOC_ROFF knob which was needed to support 1.68.1 - 1.71.1. The next commit will increase the required/assumed version further. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Doc: drop support for docbook-xsl before 1.71.1

2020-03-29T16:25:38Z

Drop the DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP mechanism, which needs to be used with docbook-xsl versions 1.69.1 through 1.71.0. We probably broke this for Asciidoctor builds in f6461b82b9 ("Documentation: fix build with Asciidoctor 2", 2019-09-15). That is, we should/could fix this similar to 55aca515eb ("manpage-bold-literal.xsl: match for namespaced "d:literal" in template", 2019-10-31). But rather than digging out such an old version of docbook-xsl to test that, let's just use this as an excuse for dropping this decade-old workaround. DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP was not needed with docbook-xsl 1.69.0 and older. Maybe such old versions still work fine on our docs, or maybe not. Let's just refer to everything before 1.71.1 as "not supported". The next commit will increase the required/assumed version further. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'ar/install-doc-update-cmds-needing-the-shell'

2019-12-01T17:04:41Z

Doc update. * ar/install-doc-update-cmds-needing-the-shell: INSTALL: use existing shell scripts as example