# [PATCH 9/9] Document "curl" requirements.

1 messages from 2005-07-23 to 2005-07-23. Participants: Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/1303

## Junio C Hamano, 2005-07-23 00:30

Subject: [PATCH 9/9] Document "curl" requirements.
Message-ID: <7vu0im9xel.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vu0im9xel.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net

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

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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 INSTALL |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

b300e6d28fc160ddc6685bde96b6bc9a710e01c3
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
+	  them.
 
 	- "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

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