Fix: the building part was already described very well. Probably the intention of the latest edits was to help updating to the newest Git version.

dscho 2015-04-06 22:26:28 +02:00
parent 4f34e6aa0d
commit f761932ff1

@ -16,22 +16,19 @@ We build Git for Windows using an [MSys2](https://msys2.github.io/) based *Git f
5. Run the test suite: `make test`. If you are a fan of statistics, you can use the following `prove` invocation to run the testsuite. But first we have to change to the test directory with the command `cd t`. After that you can issue `/usr/bin/time prove -j 15 --state=failed,save ./t[0-9]*.sh`. If *15* threads are too many for your system, you can provide the number of threads via the `-j <num>` (j for jobs) parameter.
6. Command Lines for building git and git documents
# Updating to the newest Git for Windows version
```bash
cd /usr/src/git
git pull
make -j15 install install-html
```
cd /usr/src
git clone https://github.com/git-for-windows/git.git
cd git
# verify that the test suite passes
make -j5 all
cd t
## Testing the new Git version
As before:
```bash
cd /usr/src/git/t
/usr/bin/time prove -j 5 --state=failed,save ./t[0-9]*.sh
# install the git binaries
make install
# make & install the html documentation
cd /usr/src/git/Documentation
make html
DIFF='diff' HOME='/mingw64' make install-html #/mingw32 if for 32bit arch
```