On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:18:03PM -0500, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On Fri, 2014-09-19 at 11:56 -0500, René Berber wrote: > > Updating cygwin today git version 2.1.0-1 is pulling rsync. > > > > From git's documentation (i.e. no mention of rsync): > > > > "To install Git, you need to have the following libraries that Git > > depends on: curl, zlib, openssl, expat, and libiconv." > > > > There's also no mention on the release notes. > > > > Is this a dependency error? > > No, rsync is required for git archimport.
Also, (I suspect) more commonly, for the rsync protocol used for git-clone and friends. See under "Git URLs" in `git help clone`. If you're installing Git by compiling it from source, which is what I assume the documentation is referring to, the requirements list is very small; Git will happily compile without features that require the extra libraries, just without access to those features. The version of Git that's distributed pre-compiled from the Cygwin repository mirrors, however, aims to be feature-complete rather than having minimal requirements. As a result, it pulls in a lot of extra packages that aren't necessary for basic Git functionality. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
