From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 17:18:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] http: try http_proxy env var when http.proxy config option is not set
Message-ID: <7vwr4ramqi.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120504160543.GB1331@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I am very tempted by that, too. In the meantime (and even once that curl
> version comes out and we write the new code, people will still be on the
> older version of curl), we have a fallback: they can use http.proxy if
> they want auth support. It's not as nice as supporting auth on the
> environment variables, but I think it will end up being a lot cleaner.

Sounds good.