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[PATCH] Add description on how to use an HTTP proxy with git.

From
Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Date
Jul 26, 2006, 22:23 UTC
Message-ID
<20060726222319.22350.57222.stgit@lathund.dewire.com>
From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
---
 Documentation/urls.txt |    9 ++++++++-
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt
index 7477413..fb94162 100644
--- a/Documentation/urls.txt
+++ b/Documentation/urls.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,13 @@ to name the remote repository:
 - rsync://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
 - http://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
 - https://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
+===============================================================
+
+If you need to use an HTTP proxy you can set the `http_proxy`
+environment variable to a suitable value, e.g.
+`proxy.mydomain.com:8080`. This is a libcurl feature.
+
+===============================================================
 - git://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
 - git://host.xz/~user/path/to/repo.git/
 - ssh://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
@@ -15,7 +22,7 @@ to name the remote repository:
 - ssh://host.xz/~/path/to/repo.git
 ===============================================================
 
-SSH Is the default transport protocol and also supports an
+SSH is the default transport protocol and also supports an
 scp-like syntax.  Both syntaxes support username expansion,
 as does the native git protocol. The following three are
 identical to the last three above, respectively:
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  1. Add description on how to use an HTTP proxy with git.Robin Rosenberg, Jul 26, 2006

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