On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 19:54 +0000, Daniel Hahler wrote: > Fetching through http is just one part of git core, and not > necessarily > used by all users. That's why the git-core package Recommends: curl, > most of it works just fine without curl being installed. > > That's what Recommends is meant for and the error message in case of > failure is clear enough IMHO: > /usr/bin/git-clone: 356: curl: not found > > The most common way to use git is the git protocol itself, and for > this > curl isn't required.
Only problem is that it is required for git-clone from an http:// source. That is a very common use-case. Hence the promotion to Depends really is necessary; I would not have stumbled upon this unless I had run into the problem myself. -- Michael B. Trausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] home: 404-592-5746, 1 www.trausch.us cell: 678-522-7934 im: [EMAIL PROTECTED], jabber Ubuntu Unofficial Backports Project: http://backports.trausch.us/ ** Attachment added: "unnamed" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13441028/unnamed -- git-core requires curl but doesn't download it https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/52711 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
