Documentation: move support for old compilers to CodingGuidelines

[git.git] / Documentation / SubmittingPatches

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@@ -127,19 +127,6 @@ in templates/hooks--pre-commit.  To help ensure this does not happen,
 run git diff --check on your changes before you commit.
 
 
-(1a) Try to be nice to older C compilers
-
-We try to support a wide range of C compilers to compile
-git with. That means that you should not use C99 initializers, even
-if a lot of compilers grok it.
-
-Also, variables have to be declared at the beginning of the block
-(you can check this with gcc, using the -Wdeclaration-after-statement
-option).
-
-Another thing: NULL pointers shall be written as NULL, not as 0.
-
-
 (2) Generate your patch using git tools out of your commits.
 
 git based diff tools generate unidiff which is the preferred format.