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Tone down warning about GNU Interactive Tools
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The mention of 1997 was correct when it was made, and it still is true
to some extent (http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=5189
says it has not been actively maintained for quite some time).  However,
because its name changed not to conflict with us, it is no longer
relevant whether many users use gnuit or have moved away to graphical
file managers.

The only people possibly affected are people who have older version of
gnuit installed as "git".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Issues of note:

- git normally installs a helper script wrapper called "git", which
conflicts with a similarly named "GNU interactive tools" program.

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.

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.
- Ancient versions of GNU Interactive Tools (pre-4.9.2) installed a
program "git", whose name conflicts with this program. But with
version 4.9.2, after long hiatus without active maintenance (since
around 1997), it changed its name to gnuit and the name conflict is no
longer a problem.

NOTE: When compiled with backward compatiblity option, the GNU
Interactive Tools package still can install "git", but you can build it
with --disable-transition option to avoid this.

- You can use git after building but without installing if you
wanted to. Various git commands need to find other git
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