Installing git documentation packages on RHEL 5

Question

I am trying to install git 1.8.1 on a RHEL 5 system, and I am having a ton of difficulty dealing with the documentation portion of the build. Namely, asciidoc. There are problems with the Docbook being really outdated on RHEL5.

So, I would like the use the make quick-install-doc, make quick-install-man and make quick-install-html commands that are specified in the installation readme file. However, I have absolutely no clue where to actually download the files to make this happen. According to the readme:

To use these build targets, you need to clone two separate git-htmldocs and git-manpages repositories next to the clone of git itself.

Where exactly are the "git-htmldocs" and "git-manpages" located?

EDIT: I think I found the location of where to get it.

This git url is for the man pages: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git-manpages.git

This git url is for the html pages: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git-htmldocs.git

I also found them at this Google Code site: http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list

Now... How do I install them? I don't understand what it means when it says: "next to the clone of git itself". Does this mean in the git source directory, or directly outside of it?

Answer 1

I figured it out! These are the instructions for doing it on RHEL 5 for the version 1.8.1:

What you need to do is first build and install git using the commands:

$ make prefix=/usr all
$ sudo make prefix=/usr install

Once that is installed and done, you then need to cd outside of the git source code directory, and clone the docs:

$ cd ../
$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git-manpages.git
$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git-htmldocs.git

Next, you then need to navigate back into the git source code directory, and run the commands:

$ sudo make prefix=/usr quick-install-doc
$ sudo make prefix=/usr quick-install-html

Doing this installed the man pages, and the html page documentation!