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Re: [PATCH] INSTALL: no need to have GNU diff installed

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Dec 14, 2006, 23:40 UTC
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Hi,
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Eric Wong wrote:
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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > 
> > Since a long time, we have inbuilt diff generation.
> 
> We still require it for running tests.  And git-rerere just
> added a dependency on it (my fault :)

Ah! Some of the tests are my fault, since I find the output of "diff -u" so much more pleasant than "cmp" when trying to find a bug.

How about adding a GNU diff look alike, say "git-file-diff"?

Ciao, Dscho

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