From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:40:21 +0000 (+0100) Subject: INSTALL: no need to have GNU diff installed X-Git-Tag: v1.5.0-rc0~110 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=02c9e93547d4c21635beb30895ebb6e37f67833c;p=git.git INSTALL: no need to have GNU diff installed Since a long time, we have inbuilt diff generation. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index b5dd9f0ab..e7aea60e9 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