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author | Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@dwim.me> | 2013-10-23 13:17:51 +0200 |
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committer | Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@dwim.me> | 2013-10-23 13:46:33 +0200 |
commit | 2baee9f81e6a7d8b5e9e31269908ec0d25610b4e (patch) | |
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parent | 1ecda61ec570873dd72fd129cd1bfe6a08d5a81a (diff) | |
download | libgit2-2baee9f81e6a7d8b5e9e31269908ec0d25610b4e.tar.gz |
README: add a note about the optional dependencies
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@@ -43,6 +43,17 @@ and also powering Microsoft's Visual Studio tools for Git. The library provides * descriptive and detailed error messages * ...and more (over 175 different API calls) +Optional dependencies +===================== + +While the library provides git functionality without the need for +dependencies, it can make use of a few libraries to add to it: + +- pthreads (non-Windows) to enable threadsafe access as well as multi-threaded pack generation +- OpenSSL (non-Windows) to talk over HTTPS and provide the SHA-1 functions +- LibSSH2 to enable the ssh transport +- iconv (OSX) to handle the HFS+ path encoding peculiarities + Building libgit2 - Using CMake ============================== |