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INSTALL: no need to have GNU diff installed
authorJohannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:40:21 +0000 (11:40 +0100)
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:45:23 +0000 (02:45 -0800)
Since a long time, we have inbuilt diff generation.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index b5dd9f0abb2483ad986950785fa95b8d373b60b6..e7aea60e92eba80d63e9596d8d78b9447c292bcf 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