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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] Documentation/urls: Rewrite to accomodate 
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Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:29:54 +0530
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Hi,

> Hmm: if it is not built in to the git binary, is it right to call the
> support native? =C2=A0I don=E2=80=99t mean to say HTTP support is a s=
econd-class
> citizen (with http-backend on the server side, it isn=E2=80=99t any m=
ore), but
> it is possible that remote-http is not installed on a system. =C2=A0A=
lso, it
> is a good example to introduce remote helpers with.

By "native", I meant that no special remote helpers are necessary (it
would be with svn, for example). Does the technical detail of whether
the support is built into the main Git binary need to enter the
documentation?

Thanks for the review! :) I'll post a fixup patch soon.

-- Ram