git and curl?

[3rail]

Perhaps Im having a brain dead moment, but I swear this used to work:

tc@box:~$ git clone http://svolli.org/software/tinycore/.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/tc/tinycore/.git/
error: git was compiled without libcurl support.
fatal: Don't know how to clone http://svolli.org/software/tinycore/.git

TIA

[samedirection]

For what it's worth I get the same error. 

Of course you can do a git clone the regular way (without using http):

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git clone git://svolli.org/software/tinycore/.git
But not if you happen to try it behind the firewall of your corporate overloard, which is I suppose why you're trying git over http in the first place. 

So it looks like either you propose that the TC git binary should have a curl dependency, or that we have two TC git packages.

Both seem reasonable, but I'd prefer the latter.  curl is not too big (164K), though it depends on openssl (900K).

[Juanito]

I tried to make the git extension with the minimum dependencies - i.e. none.

Of course it can be built to use curl - it just depends what everybody wants...

[3rail]

@samedirection

I found my solution later on in this post:

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=2056.msg11330#msg11330

Like you suggested, use 'git' instead of 'http', ie

git clone git://svolli.org/tinycore.git