| Message ID | patch-v3-1.9-7b771aa70ef-20210911T092751Z-avarab@gmail.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | Superseded |
| Headers | show |
| Series | post-v2.33 "drop support for ancient curl" follow-up | expand |
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 66389ce0591..5b8bd5ccce1 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -139,8 +139,7 @@ Issues of note: (PPC_SHA1). - "libcurl" library is used by git-http-fetch, git-fetch, and, if - the curl version >= 7.34.0, for git-imap-send. You might also - want the "curl" executable for debugging purposes. If you do not + the curl version >= 7.34.0, for git-imap-send. If you do not use http:// or https:// repositories, and do not want to put patches into an IMAP mailbox, you do not have to have them (use NO_CURL).
In 1d53f90ed97 (The "curl" executable is no longer required, 2008-06-15) the wording for requiring curl(1) was changed to the current "you might also want...". Mentioning the "curl" executable at all is just confusing, someone building git might want to use it to debug things, but they might also just use wget(1) or some other http client. The "curl" executable has the advantage that you might be able to e.g. reproduce a bug in git's usage of libcurl with it, but anyone going to those extents is unlikely to be aided by this note in INSTALL. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> --- INSTALL | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)