perl: bump the required Perl version to 5.8 from 5.6.[21]

[thirdparty/git.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 59200b730ec00a63f981691f7fd37f2eacb11653..10a1cba643cc9e6cc9a441708b1d43f468fb8383 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -67,10 +67,10 @@ Issues of note:
        - A POSIX-compliant shell is required to run many scripts needed
          for everyday use (e.g. "bisect", "pull").
 
-       - "Perl" is needed to use some of the features (e.g. preparing a
-         partial commit using "git add -i/-p", interacting with svn
-         repositories with "git svn").  If you can live without these, use
-         NO_PERL.
+       - "Perl" version 5.8 or later is needed to use some of the
+         features (e.g. preparing a partial commit using "git add -i/-p",
+         interacting with svn repositories with "git svn").  If you can
+         live without these, use NO_PERL.
 
        - "openssl" library is used by git-imap-send to use IMAP over SSL.
          If you don't need it, use NO_OPENSSL.