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INSTALL: Reorder dependencies, split shell and Perl
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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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Brian Gernhardt authored and Junio C Hamano committed Sep 11, 2009
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- "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it.

- "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net.

- A POSIX-compliant shell is required to run many scripts needed
for everyday use (e.g. "bisect", "pull").

- "Perl" is needed to use some of the features (e.g. preparing a
partial commit using "git add -i/-p", interacting with svn
repositories with "git svn").

- "openssl". Unless you specify otherwise, you'll get the SHA1
library from here.

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- "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
history graphically, and in git-gui.

- "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net

- "perl" and POSIX-compliant shells are needed to use most of
the bare-bones Porcelainish scripts.

- Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules,
but depending on your specific installation, you may not
have all the libraries/tools needed, or you may have
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