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[PATCH] INSTALL: git-merge no longer uses cpio

From
Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Date
Feb 6, 2008, 07:03 UTC
Message-ID
<20080206070353.6559.qmail@2b033f98573ecd.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>

Since a64d7784e830b3140e7d0f2b45cb3d8fafb84cca git merge doesn't use cpio anymore, adapt the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
---
 INSTALL |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index f1eb404..6f3bcb4 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ Issues of note:
 	- "perl" and POSIX-compliant shells are needed to use most of
 	  the barebone Porcelainish scripts.
 
-	- "cpio" is used by git-merge for saving and restoring the index,
-	  and by git-clone when doing a local (possibly hardlinked) clone.
+	- "cpio" is used by git-clone when doing a local (possibly
+	  hardlinked) clone.
 
  - Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules,
    but depending on your specific installation, you may not
-- 
1.5.4
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