On Jul 12, 2013, at 12:05, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> The existing code triggers only when the configuration variable is >> set to true. Once the variable is set to true in a more generic >> configuration file (e.g. ~/.gitconfig), it cannot be overriden to >> false in the repository specific one (e.g. .git/config). > [...] >> --- a/http.c >> +++ b/http.c >> @@ -160,8 +160,7 @@ static int http_options(const char *var, const >> char *value, void *cb) >> if (!strcmp("http.sslcainfo", var)) >> return git_config_string(&ssl_cainfo, var, value); >> if (!strcmp("http.sslcertpasswordprotected", var)) { >> - if (git_config_bool(var, value)) >> - ssl_cert_password_required = 1; >> + ssl_cert_password_required = git_config_bool(var, value); > > Thanks for catching it. The documentation doesn't say anything about > this "can only enable and cannot disable" behavior and the usual > pattern is to allow later settings to override earlier ones, so this > change looks good. > > Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> Looks good to me too. > FWIW the GIT_SSL_CERT_PASSWORD_PROTECTED envvar has a similar "can > only enable" behavior, but since it's documented, that's not as big > of a problem. Hmmm. git help config says: > Can be overridden by the GIT_SSL_CERT_PASSWORD_PROTECTED environment > variable. in the http.sslCertPasswordProtected section of the help. It doesn't say it can only be overridden to on. Is there some other documentation for that somewhere I'm missing about being can-only-enable? If not, perhaps a change something like the following could be added to the patch: diff --git a/http.c b/http.c index 2d086ae..83fc6b4 100644 --- a/http.c +++ b/http.c @@ -404,11 +404,10 @@ void http_init(struct remote *remote, const char *url, int proactive_auth) curl_ftp_no_epsv = 1; if (url) { + int pwdreq = git_env_bool("GIT_SSL_CERT_PASSWORD_PROTECTED", -1); credential_from_url(&http_auth, url); - if (!ssl_cert_password_required && - getenv("GIT_SSL_CERT_PASSWORD_PROTECTED") && - !prefixcmp(url, "https://")) - ssl_cert_password_required = 1; + if (pwdreq != -1 && !prefixcmp(url, "https://")) + ssl_cert_password_required = pwdreq; } #ifndef NO_CURL_EASY_DUPHANDLE -- -- 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