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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index b5dd9f0ab..63ba1480a 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Issues of note:
    interactive tools.  None of the core git stuff needs the wrapper,
    it's just a convenient shorthand and while it is documented in some
    places, you can always replace "git commit" with "git-commit"
-   instead. 
+   instead.
 
    But let's face it, most of us don't have GNU interactive tools, and
    even if we had it, we wouldn't know what it does.  I don't think it
@@ -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
 
@@ -99,13 +89,19 @@ Issues of note:
    will include them.  Note that config.mak is not distributed;
    the name is reserved for local settings.
 
- - To build and install documentation suite, you need to have the
-   asciidoc/xmlto toolchain.  Alternatively, pre-formatted
-   documentation are available in "html" and "man" branches of the git
-   repository itself.  For example, you could:
+ - To build and install documentation suite, you need to have
+   the asciidoc/xmlto toolchain.  Because not many people are
+   inclined to install the tools, the default build target
+   ("make all") does _not_ build them.  The documentation is
+   written for AsciiDoc 7, but "make ASCIIDOC8=YesPlease doc"
+   will let you format with AsciiDoc 8.
+
+   Alternatively, pre-formatted documentation are available in
+   "html" and "man" branches of the git 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
@@ -121,4 +117,3 @@ Issues of note:
    would instead give you a copy of what you see at:
 
 	http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/
-