From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: [PATCH (contingency)] Document "curl" requirements. Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:11:00 -0700 Message-ID: <7vk6juxy97.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <20050713021240.88AAD63780@morimoto.progeny.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 13 22:15:20 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DsndA-0002uk-4l for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 22:14:56 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262777AbVGMUOM (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:14:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262778AbVGMUMU (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:12:20 -0400 Received: from fed1rmmtao07.cox.net ([68.230.241.32]:24772 "EHLO fed1rmmtao07.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262757AbVGMULD (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:11:03 -0400 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.4.9.127]) by fed1rmmtao07.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP id <20050713201100.YFHI1367.fed1rmmtao07.cox.net@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:11:00 -0400 To: darrint@progeny.com (Darrin Thompson) In-Reply-To: <20050713021240.88AAD63780@morimoto.progeny.com> (Darrin Thompson's message of "Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:12:40 -0500 (EST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org darrint@progeny.com (Darrin Thompson) writes: > Cause setting environment variable GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY to turn off > curl's ssl peer verification. > > Only use curl for http transfers, instead of curl and wget. I do not mind curl per se, since we already require libcurl for http-pull, but it would be nice if we document what external software we depend on in one place. Something like this on top of what you posted? ------------ Not just libcurl, but now we require curl executable as well. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -41,8 +41,10 @@ Issues of note: can avoid the bignum support by excising git-rev-list support for "--merge-order" (by hand). - - "libcurl". git-http-pull uses this. You can disable building of - that program if you just want to get started. + - "libcurl" and "curl" (executable). git-http-pull and + git-fetch-script use them. If you do not use http + transfer, you are probabaly OK if you do not have + these two. - "GNU diff" to generate patches. Of course, you don't _have_ to generate patches if you don't want to, but let's face it, you'll