From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2018 03:35:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] http: add support selecting http version
Message-ID: <xmqqd0rg8cmu.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20181108011813.GE890086@genre.crustytoothpaste.net>

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 02:44:51PM +0100, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>> On Wed, 7 Nov 2018, Force.Charlie-I via GitGitGadget wrote:
>> 
>> > Normally, git doesn't need to set curl to select the HTTP version, it
>> > works fine without HTTP2. Adding HTTP2 support is a icing on the cake.
>> 
>> Just a FYI:
>> 
>> Starting with libcurl 7.62.0 (released a week ago), it now defaults to the
>> "2TLS" setting unless you tell it otherwise. With 2TLS, libcurl will attempt
>> to use HTTP/2 for HTTPS URLs.
>
> With this information, I think I would rather we rely on libcurl to do
> this rather than putting it in Git.  Users will automatically get the
> best supported protocol instead of having to configure it manually.

Yup.  I suspect that the mechanism _might_ turn out to be useful to
force downgrading, though.