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-The Steps to Build Git with VS2015 or VS2017 from the command line.
-
-1. Install the "vcpkg" open source package manager and build essential
-   third-party libraries.  The steps for this have been captured in a
-   set of convenience scripts.  These can be run from a stock Command
-   Prompt or from an SDK bash window:
-
-   $ cd <repo_root>
-   $ ./compat/vcbuild/vcpkg_install.bat
-
-   The vcpkg tools and all of the third-party sources will be installed
-   in this folder:
-      <repo_root>/compat/vcbuild/vcpkg/
-
-   A file will be created with a set of Makefile macros pointing to a
-   unified "include", "lib", and "bin" directory (release and debug) for
-   all of the required packages.  This file will be included by the main
-   Makefile:
-      <repo_root>/compat/vcbuild/MSVC-DEFS-GEN
-
-2. OPTIONALLY copy the third-party *.dll and *.pdb files into the repo
-   root to make it easier to run and debug git.exe without having to
-   manipulate your PATH.  This is especially true for debug sessions in
-   Visual Studio.
-
-   Use ONE of the following forms which should match how you want to
-   compile git.exe.
-
-   $ ./compat/vcbuild/vcpkg_copy_packages.bat debug
-   $ ./compat/vcbuild/vcpkg_copy_packages.bat release
-
-3. Build git using MSVC from an SDK bash window using one of the
-   following commands:
-
-   $ make MSVC=1
-   $ make MSVC=1 DEBUG=1
-
-================================================================
-
-Alternatively, run `make vcxproj` and then load the generated `git.sln` in
-Visual Studio. The initial build will install the vcpkg system and build the
-dependencies automatically. This will take a while.
-
-Instead of generating the `git.sln` file yourself (which requires a full Git
-for Windows SDK), you may want to consider fetching the `vs/master` branch of
-https://github.com/git-for-windows/git instead (which is updated automatically
-via CI running `make vcxproj`). The `vs/master` branch does not require a Git
-for Windows to build, but you can run the test scripts in a regular Git Bash.
-
-Note that `make vcxproj` will automatically add and commit the generated `.sln`
-and `.vcxproj` files to the repo. This is necessary to allow building a
-fully-testable Git in Visual Studio, where a regular Git Bash can be used to
-run the test scripts (as opposed to a full Git for Windows SDK): a number of
-build targets, such as Git commands implemented as Unix shell scripts (where
-`@@SHELL_PATH@@` and other placeholders are interpolated) require a full-blown
-Git for Windows SDK (which is about 10x the size of a regular Git for Windows
-installation).
-
-If your plan is to open a Pull Request with Git for Windows, it is a good idea
-to drop this commit before submitting.
-
-================================================================
-The Steps of Build Git with VS2008
-
-1. You need the build environment, which contains the Git dependencies
-   to be able to compile, link and run Git with MSVC.
-
-   You can either use the binary repository:
-
-       WWW: http://repo.or.cz/w/msvcgit.git
-       Git: git clone git://repo.or.cz/msvcgit.git
-       Zip: http://repo.or.cz/w/msvcgit.git?a=snapshot;h=master;sf=zip
-
-   and call the setup_32bit_env.cmd batch script before compiling Git,
-   (see repo/package README for details), or the source repository:
-
-       WWW: http://repo.or.cz/w/gitbuild.git
-       Git: git clone git://repo.or.cz/gitbuild.git
-       Zip: (None, as it's a project with submodules)
-
-   and build the support libs as instructed in that repo/package.
-
-2. Ensure you have the msysgit environment in your path, so you have
-   GNU Make, bash and perl available.
-
-       WWW: http://repo.or.cz/w/msysgit.git
-       Git: git clone git://repo.or.cz/msysgit.git
-       Zip: http://repo.or.cz/w/msysgit.git?a=snapshot;h=master;sf=zip
-
-   This environment is also needed when you use the resulting
-   executables, since Git might need to run scripts which are part of
-   the git operations.
-
-3. Inside Git's directory run the command:
-       make command-list.h
-   to generate the command-list.h file needed to compile git.
-
-4. Then either build Git with the GNU Make Makefile in the Git projects
-   root
-       make MSVC=1
-   or generate Visual Studio solution/projects (.sln/.vcproj) with the
-   command
-       perl contrib/buildsystems/generate -g Vcproj
-   and open and build the solution with the IDE
-       devenv git.sln /useenv
-   or build with the IDE build engine directly from the command line
-       devenv git.sln /useenv /build "Release|Win32"
-   The /useenv option is required, so Visual Studio picks up the
-   environment variables for the support libraries required to build
-   Git, which you set up in step 1.
-
-Done!