- "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it.
- - "openssl". The git-rev-list program uses bignum support from
- openssl, and unless you specify otherwise, you'll also get the
- SHA1 library from here.
+ - "openssl". Unless you specify otherwise, you'll get the SHA1
+ library from here.
If you don't have openssl, you can use one of the SHA1 libraries
that come with git (git includes the one from Mozilla, and has
management over DAV. Similar to "curl" above, this is optional.
- "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
- history graphically
+ history graphically, and in git-gui.
- "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net