The current wording of the http.proxy documentation suggests that http_proxy is somehow equivalent to http.proxy. However, while http.proxy (by the means of curl's CURLOPT_PROXY option) overrides the proxy for both HTTP and HTTPS protocols, the http_proxy environment variable is used only for HTTP. But since the docs mention only http_proxy, a user might expect it to apply to all HTTP-like protocols. Avoid any such misunderstanding by explicitly mentioning https_proxy and all_proxy as well. Also replace linkgit:curl[1] with a literal 'curl(1)', because the former gets translated to a dead link in the HTML pages. Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@xxxxxx> --- On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 12:42:52PM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > > I think just using: `curl(1)` might be sufficient. Done. Documentation/config.txt | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index abeb82b..f0ab288 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -1258,9 +1258,10 @@ help.autocorrect:: This is the default. http.proxy:: - Override the HTTP proxy, normally configured using the 'http_proxy' - environment variable (see linkgit:curl[1]). This can be overridden - on a per-remote basis; see remote.<name>.proxy + Override the HTTP proxy, normally configured using the 'http_proxy', + 'https_proxy', and 'all_proxy' environment variables (see + `curl(1)`). This can be overridden on a per-remote basis; see + remote.<name>.proxy http.cookiefile:: File containing previously stored cookie lines which should be used -- 1.7.9.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html