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| author | Dan Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com> | 2021-07-08 12:03:29 +0100 |
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| committer | Dan Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com> | 2021-07-08 12:03:29 +0100 |
| commit | 2edeb3712e4f89c1267f5cf6a4d528483e900480 (patch) | |
| tree | 651ad5a5e1efaaedc15ac89660a3da255ab3bfff | |
| parent | 1fb4ec49800b6a847c92395f26f7e86a368c51cd (diff) | |
More clean-up of installation section in README
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -201,9 +201,11 @@ In addition, delta handles traditional unified diff output. ## Installation -You can download an executable for your system: [Linux](https://github.com/dandavison/delta/releases/download/0.8.2/delta-0.8.2-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz) | [MacOS (recent versions)](https://github.com/dandavison/delta/releases/download/0.8.2/delta-0.8.2-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz) | [Windows](https://github.com/dandavison/delta/releases/download/0.8.2/delta-0.8.2-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip) | [All](https://github.com/dandavison/delta/releases) +You can download an executable for your system: [Linux](https://github.com/dandavison/delta/releases/download/0.8.2/delta-0.8.2-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz) | [MacOS](https://github.com/dandavison/delta/releases/download/0.8.2/delta-0.8.2-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz) | [Windows](https://github.com/dandavison/delta/releases/download/0.8.2/delta-0.8.2-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip) | [All](https://github.com/dandavison/delta/releases) -Alternatively, delta is available in the following package managers: +Alternatively you can install delta using a package manager: see [repology.org/git-delta](https://repology.org/project/git-delta/versions). + +Note that the package is often called `git-delta`, but the executable installed is called `delta`. Here is a quick sumary for selected package managers: <table> <tr> @@ -268,8 +270,6 @@ Alternatively, delta is available in the following package managers: Users of older MacOS versions (e.g. 10.11 El Capitan) should install using Homebrew, Cargo, or MacPorts: the binaries on the release page will not work. -See [repology.org/git-delta](https://repology.org/project/git-delta/versions) for the current version in each package repository. - Behind the scenes, delta uses [`less`](https://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/) for paging. It's important to have a reasonably recent version of less installed. On MacOS, install `less` from Homebrew. For Windows, see [Using Delta on Windows](#using-delta-on-windows). |