From: Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:22:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow HTTP proxy to be overridden in config
Message-ID: <47551C66.4010202@catalyst.net.nz>
In-Reply-To: <7vodd66dzw.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Subject: [PATCH] Add remote.<name>.proxy
>> As well as allowing a default proxy option, allow it to be set
>> per-remote.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I was very tempted to rename them to remote.*.httpproxy, but ended up
> keeping the name of the variable.  We might want to allow tunnelling the
> git native transport over the named proxy when remote.*.url is native
> transport.

Also, it controls proxy for all of the curl-based git transports, not
just http.

Sam.