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Re: Git spurious dependency: rsync
- From: Adam Dinwoodie <adam at dinwoodie dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 23:48:41 +0100
- Subject: Re: Git spurious dependency: rsync
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:02:18PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> > Also, (I suspect) more commonly, for the rsync protocol used for
> > git-clone and friends. See under "Git URLs" in `git help clone`.
>
> I thought libcurl did that...
As far as I can tell, libcurl doesn't support the rsync protocol.
Looking at the Git test suite, t5510 will only perform the tests that
check syncing using the rsync protocol if rsync is installed, which
would strongly imply to me that rsync is a requirement to use the
protocol.
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