diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index f1eb4049b9..6f3bcb4525 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ Issues of note:
 	- "perl" and POSIX-compliant shells are needed to use most of
 	  the barebone Porcelainish scripts.
 
-	- "cpio" is used by git-merge for saving and restoring the index,
-	  and by git-clone when doing a local (possibly hardlinked) clone.
+	- "cpio" is used by git-clone when doing a local (possibly
+	  hardlinked) clone.
 
  - Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules,
    but depending on your specific installation, you may not