This is a resurrection of the thread from April: https://public-inbox.org/git/20170404025438.bgxz5sfmrawqswcj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ The general idea is that we should drop support for very old curl versions, which already fail to compile. I'm sympathetic to the case where people actually have systems with really old versions of curl. But at the same time, I think we may be better off informing them that Git isn't tested with these ancient versions at all (and I have a suspicion that there are lurking bugs; see the commit messages or read that other thread). I've broken the changes into three patches. That helps a bit with reviewing the diffs, but it also means we don't have to apply them all at once (though I think we should; but it would likewise help if end up wanting to revert one of them later). The first cutoff is based on having more compilation breakages than the other (and also just being incredibly old). The second is just a sweet spot of bang-for-the-buck and age. In the absence of other data, it's probably what I would suggest. The third one uses the existing compile breakage from v2.12.0 as a guide. [1/4]: http: drop support for curl < 7.11.1 [2/4]: http: drop support for curl < 7.16.0 [3/4]: http: drop support for curl < 7.19.4 [4/4]: http: #error on too-old curl Documentation/config.txt | 3 +- http-push.c | 23 ------- http-walker.c | 12 ---- http.c | 153 +---------------------------------------------- http.h | 35 +---------- remote-curl.c | 7 --- 6 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 228 deletions(-) -Peff
