Re: Git sources doesn't contain the INSATLL file?

Hi Daniel,

As a first-time developer I don't know how the released README / INSTALL
are generated. So it's quite unintuitive to find the README.git file.

I may expect an entry in README or a BUILD file when I obtain the sources
by git clone, while a conventional ./configure && make works so it may be
fine.

I don't know why we need a different README.git file and cannot include
INSTALL in the source cloned via git, so I cannot make suggestions here
because the obvious solution is 'mv README.git INSTALL'.

Best,
tison.

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> 于2023年4月7日周五 04:21写道：

> > On 6 Apr 2023, at 22:13, tison <wander4096(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Hackers,
> >
> > I opened https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=tree and
> clone the repo. The README file says that I can read the INSTALL file to
> understand how to build from source. But there is no such file in Git
> sources. Is it expected? If so, why?
>
> it's very expected, the README.git file contains:
>
> "In a release or snapshot tarball of PostgreSQL, a documentation
> file
> named INSTALL will appear in this directory. However, this file
> is not
> stored in git and so will not be present if you are using a git
> checkout."
>
> The INSTALL file was removed in 54d314c93c0baf5d3bd303d206d8ab9f58be1c37 a
> long
> time ago.
>
> That being said, maybe README should have wording along the lines of the
> above
> since it's now referring to a file which might not exist?
>
> --
> Daniel Gustafsson
>
>