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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org, junkio@cox.net
Subject: [PATCH] INSTALL: no need to have GNU diff installed
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:40:21 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612141139540.3635@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de> (raw)


Since a long time, we have inbuilt diff generation.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 INSTALL |   10 ----------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index b5dd9f0..e7aea60 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -72,16 +72,6 @@ Issues of note:
 	- expat library; git-http-push uses it for remote lock
 	  management over DAV.  Similar to "curl" above, this is optional.
 
-	- "GNU diff" to generate patches.  Of course, you don't _have_ to
-	  generate patches if you don't want to, but let's face it, you'll
-	  be wanting to. Or why did you get git in the first place?
-
-	  Non-GNU versions of the diff/patch programs don't generally support
-	  the unified patch format (which is the one git uses), so you
-	  really do want to get the GNU one.  Trust me, you will want to
-	  do that even if it wasn't for git.  There's no point in living
-	  in the dark ages any more. 
-
         - "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
           history graphically
 
-- 
1.4.4.2.ga1b439-dirty

             reply	other threads:[~2006-12-14 10:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-14 10:40 Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2006-12-14 20:46 ` [PATCH] INSTALL: no need to have GNU diff installed Eric Wong
2006-12-14 23:40   ` Johannes Schindelin

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