Re: SChannel support in Git for Windows

From: Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix+git@007spb.ru>
Date: Jan 15, 2016, 16:47 UTC
Message-ID: <20160115194746.abcb4b7dab4653d222e0362c@domain007.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+1xWarcXz4RdgXd8p-43sQ5UeRAwXmrsU_JVqwewmro7rz2Gw@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 11:11:58 -0500 Robert Labrie <robert.labrie@gmail.com> wrote:

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> You are correct, SChannel in NT 5.x is limited, but all those versions
> are officially out of support.
> 
> When you're part of a Windows ecosystem, those root certs get pushed
> into the local store by a GPO (usually), and you don't have to think
> about it. That's the only reason I'm pushing.
> 
> Sounds like libcurl can't make it a run time consideration, and git
> (understandably) doesn't want to worry about SChannel limitations in
> very old versions of Windows.
> 
> Does git use libcurl for everything? I wonder if I could just drop my
> own libraries with WinHTTP support?

I'd say you could fork the Git for Windows's SDK [1], hack it to build curl with the configuration you need and then create your own installer. You'll need to rebase your patch each time a new GfW release will come out, but the patch should be small enough IMO.

1. https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/releases/latest