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

From: Johannes Schindelin <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-11 20:31:23

Hi,

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Eric Wong wrote:
Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
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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