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| author | Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> | 2021-09-11 12:34:16 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-09-12 22:00:15 +0300 |
| commit | e54e50201cc2df009a60b8754570cf6ce9dcff43 (patch) | |
| tree | 6e3e5ec2f0b9a24f390faa7e083b81fe479f2099 /INSTALL | |
| parent | 5b952447ccfc3719d59eb9d28af153e34e6d69b6 (diff) | |
INSTALL: reword and copy-edit the "libcurl" section
Make the "libcurl" section shorter and more to the point, this is
mostly based on suggestions from [1].
1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/YTtxcBdF2VQdWp5C@coredump.intra.peff.net/
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -138,11 +138,11 @@ Issues of note: BLK_SHA1. Also included is a version optimized for PowerPC (PPC_SHA1). - - "libcurl" library is used by git-http-fetch, git-fetch, and, if - 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). + - "libcurl" library is used for fetching and pushing + repositories over http:// or https://, as well as by + git-imap-send if the curl version is >= 7.34.0. If you do + not need that functionality, use NO_CURL to build without + it. - "expat" library; git-http-push uses it for remote lock management over DAV. Similar to "curl" above, this is optional |