docs: add filter-branch notes on The BFG

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index ef442ebad097a47bb19ea75037e62c51d9bb5d8b..4026211cb42e8caca91b2bbe0c9236a4db543352 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -69,9 +69,6 @@ all::
 # Define NO_MSGFMT_EXTENDED_OPTIONS if your implementation of msgfmt
 # doesn't support GNU extensions like --check and --statistics
 #
-# Define NEEDS_CLIPPED_WRITE if your write(2) cannot write more than
-# INT_MAX bytes at once (e.g. MacOS X).
-#
 # Define HAVE_PATHS_H if you have paths.h and want to use the default PATH
 # it specifies.
 #
@@ -654,7 +651,6 @@ LIB_H += color.h
 LIB_H += column.h
 LIB_H += commit.h
 LIB_H += compat/bswap.h
-LIB_H += compat/cygwin.h
 LIB_H += compat/mingw.h
 LIB_H += compat/obstack.h
 LIB_H += compat/poll/poll.h
@@ -1494,11 +1490,6 @@ ifndef NO_MSGFMT_EXTENDED_OPTIONS
        MSGFMT += --check --statistics
 endif
 
-ifdef NEEDS_CLIPPED_WRITE
-       BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNEEDS_CLIPPED_WRITE
-       COMPAT_OBJS += compat/clipped-write.o
-endif
-
 ifneq (,$(XDL_FAST_HASH))
        BASIC_CFLAGS += -DXDL_FAST_HASH
 endif