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From: Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net>
To: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Building Git with HTTPS support: avoiding libcurl?
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 12:30:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1450805416.11255.58.camel@mad-scientist.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD0k6qT+s4e_7y1DxVTN63V0tO_xFv-9i-Fmq5O0SrpQAyAzVA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2015-12-22 at 09:08 -0800, Dave Borowitz wrote:
> Well, IIUC one of the reasons for Git's fork-everything strategy is to
> avoid having to dynamically link the core git binary against large
> libraries like libcurl, so the dependency size has been taken into
> account at least in that sense.

Sure, and it's great that I still get most Git even if I don't have
libcurl.

But without support for cloning https remotes there's a significant hole
in Git functionality...

I grok that Git doesn't want to re-invent the wheel and that libcurl is
convenient.  I just wonder if anyone knows of another wheel, that
doesn't come attached to an entire tractor-trailer, that could be used
instead :).

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-22 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-22 15:39 Building Git with HTTPS support: avoiding libcurl? Paul Smith
2015-12-22 17:08 ` Dave Borowitz
2015-12-22 17:30   ` Paul Smith [this message]
2015-12-23 10:17     ` Daniel Stenberg
2015-12-23 19:35       ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-12-24 22:36 ` Thiago Farina

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