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From: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Building Git with HTTPS support: avoiding libcurl?
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 20:36:48 -0200
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On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net> wrote:
> I'm trying to build Git (2.6.4) on GNU/Linux, but without any
> requirements (other than basic libc etc.) on the local system.  This
> works fine except for one thing: git-remote-https.
>
> In order to build this I need to have libcurl, but libcurl is a MONSTER
> library with an enormous number of prerequisites (see below).
>
I think Git would have to be changed to use raw sockets and implement
everything it needs on top of that, like libgit2 already does. Certainly this
won't be a trivial task.

-- 
Thiago Farina