Always perfer annotated tags in git-describe.

[git.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index b5dd9f0abb2483ad986950785fa95b8d373b60b6..361c65bacc50b4038cb9a32bab07c275a1ecdc76 100644 (file)
--- 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
 
@@ -105,7 +95,7 @@ Issues of note:
    repository itself.  For example, you could:
 
        $ mkdir manual && cd manual
-       $ git init-db
+       $ git init
        $ git fetch-pack git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git man html |
          while read a b
          do