Update INSTALL.md #472
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Windows 10 comes now preinstalled with the correct cURL version so you don't need to install it by yourself anymore
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Thank you for this information. We don’t have a Windows so machine so we can't help here, but I left a few comments.
Could you please rebase your pull request on top of the current master (there have been some other changes since then) to avoid conflicts, and update this? It would be great to finally merge this.
| In order to use SFTP, [download curl](http://curl.haxx.se/download.html) for | ||
| Windows with SFTP support. | ||
| Win32 2000/XP MSI or Win64 2000/XP x86_64 MSI is recommended. | ||
| If you installed curl, then remove `bin/curl.exe` from your Git for Windows | ||
| installation directory. It will fall back to the newly installed version. | ||
| installation directory. It will fall back to the newly installed version.~~ |
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I would suggest not crossing that off. There may still be users of older versions of Windows who need this information. So why not say something like:
+ Older versions of Windows come with curl installed, but …| In order to use SFTP, [download curl](http://curl.haxx.se/download.html) for | ||
| Windows with SFTP support. | ||
| Win32 2000/XP MSI or Win64 2000/XP x86_64 MSI is recommended. | ||
| If you installed curl, then remove `bin/curl.exe` from your Git for Windows | ||
| installation directory. It will fall back to the newly installed version. | ||
| installation directory. It will fall back to the newly installed version.~~ | ||
| Windows 10 comes now preinstalled with the correct cURL version. |
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Can you specify which version of Windows 10 introduces the updated cURL version?
Again maybe a user has a older version. Then this information could be useful.
Maybe like:
+ Since Windows 10 version XXXX a cURL installation supporting SFTP is preinstalled.And then the suggestion from above.
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If we do curl -V in Windows 10 2004 we have this:
curl 7.55.1 (Windows) libcurl/7.55.1 WinSSL
Release-Date: 2017-11-14, security patched: 2019-11-05
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps http https imap imaps pop3 pop3s smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS IPv6 Largefile SSPI Kerberos SPNEGO NTLM SSL
If we do curl -V in the latest Git Bash we have this:
curl 7.71.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) libcurl/7.71.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1g (Schannel) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.3.0 libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.41.0
Release-Date: 2020-07-01
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp scp sftp smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS brotli HTTP2 HTTPS-proxy IDN IPv6 Kerberos Largefile libz Metalink MultiSSL NTLM SPNEGO SSL SSPI TLS-SRP
So, AFAIK, there's no support for SFTP unless we use the cURL provided on the cURL website or the latest Git for Windows.
In fact it was only broken between version 2.16.2 and 2.25 versions. From version 2.25.1, SFTP support in the included cURL was restored.
Windows 10 comes now preinstalled with the correct cURL version so you don't need to install it by yourself anymore