From 2edeb3712e4f89c1267f5cf6a4d528483e900480 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Davison Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2021 12:03:29 +0100 Subject: More clean-up of installation section in README --- README.md | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c557ec12..12c5bfb5 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -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: @@ -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). -- cgit v1.2.3