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@@ -6,7 +6,14 @@ Go bindings for [libgit2](http://libgit2.github.com/). These bindings are for to Installing ---------- -Just `go get github.com/libgit2/git2go`. You'll need to have top-of-the-branch libgit2 from development installed in your system and available via `pkg-config`. These bindings are in sync with the top of `development`. +This project needs libgit2, which is written in C so we need to build that as well. In order to build libgit2, you need `cmake`, `pkg-config` and a C compiler. You will also need the development packages for OpenSSL and LibSSH2 if you want to use HTTPS and SSH respectively. + +Run `go get github.com/libgit2/git2go` to download the code and go to your `$GOPATH/src/github.com/libgt2/git2go` dir. From there, we need to build the C code and put it into the resulting go binary. + + git submodule update --init # get libgit2 + make install + +will compile libgit2 and run `go install` such that it's statically linked to the git2go package. License ------- |