[PATCH] untrue statement about git wrapper

From

Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>

Date

Jan 25, 2007, 05:57 UTC

Message-ID

<20070125055750.GA20545@cepheus>

In-Reply-To

<20070125045730.GA20345@spearce.org>

> Uwe Kleine-K?nig <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> > I wonder if there is a simpler way to test changes to git than
> > installing it.  My problem is that even if I run 
> 
> Look at the INSTALL file:
> 
> 	GIT_EXEC_PATH=`pwd`
> 	PATH=`pwd`:$PATH
> 	GITPERLLIB=`pwd`/perl/blib/lib
> 	export GIT_EXEC_PATH PATH GITPERLLIB
> 

Thanks, that's what I searched for.

While reading INSTALL, I noticed the following

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
---
 INSTALL |    9 +++------
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 361c65b..66f64a6 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -27,16 +27,13 @@ Issues of note:
  - git normally installs a helper script wrapper called "git", which
    conflicts with a similarly named "GNU interactive tools" program.
 
-   Tough.  Either don't use the wrapper script, or delete the old GNU
-   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. 
+   Tough.  
 
    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
    has been actively developed since 1997, and people have moved over to
-   graphical file managers.
+   graphical file managers.  So I suggest to remove it from your system
+   if you have it.
 
  - You can use git after building but without installing if you
    wanted to.  Various git commands need to find other git

-- 
1.5.0.rc2.gd1af2d

-- 
Uwe Kleine-König

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