From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain•net>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Nelson Benitez Leon <nelsonjesus.benitez@seap•minhap.es>,
Thomas Rast <trast@inf•ethz.ch>,
git@vger•kernel.org, sam.vilain@catalyst•net.nz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] http: try standard proxy env vars when http.proxy config option is not set
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:27:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F4D2AAD.3040107@vilain.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120228191514.GD11260@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On 2/28/12 11:15 AM, Jeff King wrote:
> Usually we would prefer environment variables to config. So that:
>
> $ git config http.proxy foo
> $ HTTP_PROXY=bar git fetch
>
> would use "bar" as the proxy, not "foo". But your code above would
> prefer "foo", right?
Apparently I'm the author of the http.proxy feature, though I barely
remember what problem I was actually solving at the time. At the time I
justified it on the grounds that a user might want to use a different
proxy for git and/or a particular remote. The "http_proxy" environment
variable is likely to be a global system default, or perhaps a desktop
setting, and therefore I'd say probably less and not more specific than
a git configuration variable.
As to this matter of "HTTP_PROXY", I'm not sure about whether that helps
or confuses matters to support. I must admit I'm still confused by the
motivation of this patch series.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-28 19:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-28 12:54 [PATCH 2/3] http: try standard proxy env vars when http.proxy config option is not set Nelson Benitez Leon
2012-02-28 12:19 ` Thomas Rast
2012-02-28 14:57 ` Nelson Benitez Leon
2012-02-28 14:34 ` Thomas Rast
2012-02-28 19:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-29 10:38 ` Nelson Benitez Leon
2012-02-29 18:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-01 10:18 ` Nelson Benitez Leon
2012-03-04 19:19 ` Daniel Stenberg
2012-02-28 19:15 ` Jeff King
2012-02-28 19:27 ` Sam Vilain [this message]
2012-02-28 19:34 ` Jeff King
2012-02-29 9:55 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-02-29 10:46 ` Nelson Benitez Leon
2012-02-29 21:08 ` Jeff King
2012-03-01 9:57 ` Nelson Benitez Leon
2012-03-01 9:10 ` Jeff King
2012-03-11 16:56 ` James Cloos
2012-03-11 19:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-13 10:22 ` Nelson Benitez Leon
2012-03-14 4:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-14 9:54 ` Nelson Benitez Leon
2012-03-14 20:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-15 9:38 ` Nelson Benitez Leon
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