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authorMiklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>2008-07-06 06:28:41 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-07-05 23:31:42 -0700
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downloadgit-f45ed32c4067eb617e670da3a73348bba4841f3f.tar.gz
INSTALL: Update section about git-frotz form.
The old text stated that 'git-frotz' can be always used instead of 'git frotz' which is no longer true. Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -27,20 +27,14 @@ Issues of note:
- git normally installs a helper script wrapper called "git", which
conflicts with a similarly named "GNU interactive tools" program.
- Tough. Either don't use the wrapper script, or delete the old GNU
- interactive tools. None of the core git stuff needs the wrapper,
- it's just a convenient shorthand and while it is documented in some
- places, you can always replace "git commit" with "git-commit"
- instead.
-
- But let's face it, most of us don't have GNU interactive tools, and
- even if we had it, we wouldn't know what it does. I don't think it
- has been actively developed since 1997, and people have moved over to
+ Let's face it, most of us don't have GNU interactive tools, and even
+ if we had it, we wouldn't know what it does. I don't think it has
+ been actively developed since 1997, and people have moved over to
graphical file managers.
- NOTE: As of gnuit-4.9.2, the GNU interactive tools package has been
- renamed. You can compile gnuit with the --disable-transition
- option and then it will not conflict with git.
+ In addition, as of gnuit-4.9.2, the GNU interactive tools package has
+ been renamed. You can compile gnuit with the --disable-transition
+ option and then it will not conflict with git.
- You can use git after building but without installing if you
wanted to. Various git commands need to find other git