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

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Johannes Schindelin· Dec 14, 2006, 10:40 UTC · lore

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

Since a long time, we have inbuilt diff generation.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
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 INSTALL |   10 ----------
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index b5dd9f0..e7aea60 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -72,16 +72,6 @@ Issues of note:
 	- expat library; git-http-push uses it for remote lock
 	  management over DAV.  Similar to "curl" above, this is optional.
 
-	- "GNU diff" to generate patches.  Of course, you don't _have_ to
-	  generate patches if you don't want to, but let's face it, you'll
-	  be wanting to. Or why did you get git in the first place?
-
-	  Non-GNU versions of the diff/patch programs don't generally support
-	  the unified patch format (which is the one git uses), so you
-	  really do want to get the GNU one.  Trust me, you will want to
-	  do that even if it wasn't for git.  There's no point in living
-	  in the dark ages any more. 
-
         - "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
           history graphically
 

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Johannes Schindelin· Dec 14, 2006, 23:40 UTC · re: Eric Wong · lore
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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