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Re: Eliminate curl binary

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Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date
Jun 3, 2008, 11:14 UTC
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<200806031314.52579.johan@herland.net>
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<20080603105323.GA15825@camelia.ucw.cz>
On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Stepan Kasal wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> git source code uses curl (the binary) on exactly one spot:
> git-clone.sh
> I would welcome if that spot were rewritten so that git would no
> longer require curl, only libcurl.

In the next version of Git (v1.5.6, currently in RC1), git-clone.sh has been replaced by a builtin C version (builtin-clone.c, part of the git binary). I assume the new version uses libcurl instead of the curl binary.

Have fun! :)
...Johan
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Johan Herland, <johan@herland.net>
www.herland.net
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