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From: Nelson Benitez Leon <nelsonjesus.benitez@seap•minhap.es>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain•net>, 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: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:46:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F4E01EB.3070707@seap.minhap.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120228193443.GB11725@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On 02/28/2012 08:34 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:27:41AM -0800, Sam Vilain wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> [snip]
> 
> Good point. We sometimes follow this order:
> 
>   1. git-specific environment variables (i.e., $GIT_HTTP_PROXY, if
>      it existed)
>   2. git config files (i.e., http.proxy)
>   3. generic system environment (i.e., $http_proxy).
> 
> So thinking about it that way, the original patch makes more sense.

So, in PATCH 2/3, apart from expanding the commit message.. do we want
to support HTTP_PROXY or only http_proxy ? HTTP_PROXY seems to not be
very used by existent programs, but support it it's only a gentenv call..

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-29  9:48 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
2012-02-28 19:34     ` Jeff King
2012-02-29  9:55       ` Matthieu Moy
2012-02-29 10:46       ` Nelson Benitez Leon [this message]
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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