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Re: Cannot install git RPM

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Aug 9, 2005, 15:00 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.58.0508090758110.3258@g5.osdl.org>
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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.

[ 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 ]
		Linus
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