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Date:  Fri, 2 Feb 2007 11:12:04 -0500
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"Eric Blake" <ebb9 AT byu DOT net> wrote in message news:45C3427D DOT 1070002 AT byu DOT net...
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> According to Mark Levedahl on 2/1/2007 9:35 AM:
>> git requires curl and cpio, but these packages are not listed as
>> dependencies.
> 
> cpio I can see, but does it really use curl AS WELL AS libcurl3?  Anyways,
> thanks for the hint; I've updated the dependency.  It also uses tcl if you
> use gitk, but I haven't added that dependency (not to mention that gitk is
> somewhat broken under cygwin until this week's patches on the git mailing
> list are applied, due to tcl inconsistencies between cygwin vs. Linux;
> hopefully the gitk patches make it in the eventual git 1.5).
> 

Shell scripts git-fetch and git-ls-remote both invoke curl.

The gitk patch is on pu and 1.5 is nearly frozen so I don't expect the patch to be in 1.5. 
You could just add it to the cygwin package. (hint, hint).

Mark Levedahl


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