[PATCH (contingency)] Document "curl" requirements.

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jul 13, 2005, 20:11 UTC
Message-ID: <7vk6juxy97.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050713021240.88AAD63780@morimoto.progeny.com>

darrint@progeny.com (Darrin Thompson) writes:

> Cause setting environment variable GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY to turn off
> curl's ssl peer verification.
>
> Only use curl for http transfers, instead of curl and wget.

I do not mind curl per se, since we already require libcurl for http-pull, but it would be nice if we document what external software we depend on in one place. Something like this on top of what you posted?

------------ Not just libcurl, but now we require curl executable as well.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
---

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -41,8 +41,10 @@ Issues of note:
 	  can avoid the bignum support by excising git-rev-list support
 	  for "--merge-order" (by hand).
 
-	- "libcurl".  git-http-pull uses this.  You can disable building of
-	  that program if you just want to get started. 
+	- "libcurl" and "curl" (executable).  git-http-pull and
+	  git-fetch-script use them.  If you do not use http
+	  transfer, you are probabaly OK if you do not have
+	  these two.
 
 	- "GNU diff" to generate patches.  Of course, you don't _have_ to
 	  generate patches if you don't want to, but let's face it, you'll