Git spurious dependency: rsync

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On Fri, 2014-09-19 at 11:56 -0500, René Berber wrote:
> Updating cygwin today git version 2.1.0-1 is pulling rsync.
> 
> From git's documentation (i.e. no mention of rsync):
> 
> "To install Git, you need to have the following libraries that Git
> depends on: curl, zlib, openssl, expat, and libiconv."
> 
> There's also no mention on the release notes.
> 
> Is this a dependency error?

No, rsync is required for git archimport.

HTH,
Yaakov



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