From: Clemens Koller Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 15:36:38 GMT Subject: Re: Cannot install git RPM Message-ID: <42F8CD86.9000409@anagramm.de> In-Reply-To: Hi, Linus! Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Clemens Koller wrote: > >>Over here - using a non-standard ELDK/LFS mixture, git depends at least on: >>... >>diffstat (ftp://invisible-island.net/diffstat/diffstat-1.39.tgz) > > > Hmm.. This should not be true. Any "diffstat"s should be converted to use > "git-apply --stat" instead. > > I don't find any diffstat users, so maybe you just remember it from "the > old days", and didn't realize that it's not needed any more. Okay, just FYI: As far as my installation history remembers it was needed at least up to: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/git-20050622.tar.bz2 Which is _NOT_ recommended for new installations! (Can somebody please remove/mark that old stuff to avoid using it?!) Instead use: http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/git-snapshots/git/git-latest.tar.gz > [ That said, anybody who wants to install git might as well install > diffstat, it's a useful program in general, and works on more than just > unified diffs ] true. Greets, Clemens Koller _______________________________ R&D Imaging Devices Anagramm GmbH Rupert-Mayer-Str. 45/1 81379 Muenchen Germany http://www.anagramm.de Phone: +49-89-741518-50 Fax: +49-89-741518-19