Re: SChannel support in Git for Windows

[Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix+git@007spb.ru>]

On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 10:04:17 -0500
Robert Labrie <robert.labrie@gmail.com> wrote:

[...]
> But it would be more awesome if git just supported schannel on
> Windows. I think cURL does already.

On the one hand, yes -- that would mean tighter integration into the
system which is a good thing from the administrative standpoint.

On the other hand, IIUC, this artifically limits the capabilities of
Git to whatever set of features the schannel implementation in a
particular version of Windows supports.  As a glaring example, support
for TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 had never made it into Windows XP (and
supposedly Windows Server 2003, though I may be wrong) despite its
serious entrenchment.  Among other things, that included IE (6, then 7,
then 8).  I do understand the reasons MS validly has for its push on its
customers for upgrades, but ubiquitous OSes nearing their EOL become
prone to lacking of certain features in their stacks.  This well might
be true for Windows 7 some 5 years down the road or so: from where I
sit, it looks like corporate users have zero reasons to upgrade to 10.

Hence ideally there would be some switch which would make libCURL pick
the implementation at runtime.  But I'm afraid it's hardly doable.