INSTALL: reword and copy-edit the "libcurl" section

Make the "libcurl" section shorter and more to the point, this is
mostly based on suggestions from [1].

1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/YTtxcBdF2VQdWp5C@coredump.intra.peff.net/

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 5b8bd5ccce1827a463d82fece567e632fa85f64d..d593f6287494f4b6e210b9134dbd5237ca06fcc4 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -138,11 +138,11 @@ Issues of note:
          BLK_SHA1.  Also included is a version optimized for PowerPC
          (PPC_SHA1).
 
-       - "libcurl" library is used by git-http-fetch, git-fetch, and, if
-         the curl version >= 7.34.0, for git-imap-send. If you do not
-         use http:// or https:// repositories, and do not want to put
-         patches into an IMAP mailbox, you do not have to have them
-         (use NO_CURL).
+       - "libcurl" library is used for fetching and pushing
+         repositories over http:// or https://, as well as by
+         git-imap-send if the curl version is >= 7.34.0. If you do
+         not need that functionality, use NO_CURL to build without
+         it.
 
        - "expat" library; git-http-push uses it for remote lock
          management over DAV.  Similar to "curl" above, this is optional