Re: [PATCH] Add persistent-https to contrib

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> I do not mind carrying this in the contrib/ area (I am assuming that
> distributing Apache licensed software that does not link with GPLv2 core
> is OK).  It may be just me, but a file called COPYING that does not have
> GPL text in it was a bit surprising.  I wonder if it is more customary to
> call it either LICENSE (or perhaps LICENSE-2.0)?

Agreed. I'll change the name to LICENSE.


> It might deserve its own contrib/persistent-https/Makefile in addition to
> your internal "release" scripts, though.

OK. I'll update the code to use a simple Makefile for everything,
instead of the shell scripts.


> More specifically, this environment variable is a way to tell the wrapped
> helper who is wrapping it.  Users outside Google's environment of the
> persistent-https helper obviously would not care about the corporate
> sanitary sewer overflow mechanism, but they may have a similar need to
> tweak what happens inside the git-remote-http that is driven by the
> persistent helper. They would not care about "we can enable corpsso", but
> they would benefit from knowing that either:
>
>  (1) the connection is "secure" (by the definition above); or
>  (2) the connection is going to this particular helper.

Agreed, I'll go with approach (1) and change the name of the var to be
GIT_PERSISTENT_HTTPS_SECURE. Also, I will update the code to remove
any GIT_PERSISTENT_HTTPS_SECURE from the environment.
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