It is disconcerting for users to not notice the behavior change in handling alternates from commit cb4d2d35c4622ec2 ("http: treat http-alternates like redirects") Give the user a hint about the config option so they can see the URL and decide whether or not they want to enable http.followRedirects in their config. Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@xxxxxxxxx> --- http-walker.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/http-walker.c b/http-walker.c index b34b6ace7..626badfe6 100644 --- a/http-walker.c +++ b/http-walker.c @@ -168,6 +168,12 @@ static int is_alternate_allowed(const char *url) }; int i; + if (http_follow_config != HTTP_FOLLOW_ALWAYS) { + warning("alternate disabled by http.followRedirects!=true: %s", + url); + return 0; + } + for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(protocols); i++) { const char *end; if (skip_prefix(url, protocols[i], &end) && @@ -331,9 +337,6 @@ static void fetch_alternates(struct walker *walker, const char *base) struct alternates_request alt_req; struct walker_data *cdata = walker->data; - if (http_follow_config != HTTP_FOLLOW_ALWAYS) - return; - /* * If another request has already started fetching alternates, * wait for them to arrive and return to processing this request's -- EW