Subject: Re: Cannot install git RPM

From: Clemens Koller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:36:38 +0200

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
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