can avoid the bignum support by excising git-rev-list support
for "--merge-order" (by hand).
- - "libcurl". git-http-pull uses this. You can disable building of
- that program if you just want to get started.
+ - "libcurl" and "curl" executable. git-http-pull and
+ git-fetch-script use them. If you do not use http
+ transfer, you are probabaly OK if you do not have
+ them.
- - "GNU patch" to generate patches. Of course, you don't _have_ to
+ - "GNU diff" to generate patches. Of course, you don't _have_ to
generate patches if you don't want to, but let's face it, you'll
be wanting to. Or why did you get git in the first place?
- Non-GNU versions of the patch program don't generally support
+ Non-GNU versions of the diff/patch programs don't generally support
the unified patch format (which is the one git uses), so you
really do want to get the GNU one. Trust me, you will want to
do that even if it wasn't for git. There's no point in living