On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 5:02 AM, Jeff King <[email protected]> wrote: > Since v2.12.0, Git does not compile with versions of curl > older than 7.19.4. That version of curl is about 8 years > old. This means it may still be used in some distributions > with long-running support periods. But the fact that we > haven't received a single bug report about the compile-time > breakage implies that nobody cares about building recent > releases on such platforms.
I would not state it as bland, see how https://public-inbox.org/git/[email protected]/ came here to the mailing list. > As discussed in the previous two commits, this cleans up the > code and gives a more realistic signal to users about which > versions of Git are actually tested (in particular, this > moves us past the potential use-after-free issues with curl > older than 7.17.0). This is a good reason for this patch, though, so maybe just elide the "nobody cares" part? Thanks for these cleanups!
