Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] http: try standard proxy env vars when http.proxy config option is not set

From: Nelson Benitez Leon <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:46:03 +0100

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..