Re: [PATCH] http: inform about alternates-as-redirects behavior

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On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 06:55:48AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The warning itself:
> > 
> > > +		warning("alternate disabled by http.followRedirects!=true: %s",
> > 
> > feels like it could use some whitespace around the "!=", but maybe
> > that's just me.
> 
> Yeah, I kinda wanted to emulate the command-line syntax.
> 
> Maybe rewording it a bit and showing how to enable it will
> make more sense:
> 
> 		warning("alternate: %s", url);
> 		warning(" may be enabled by -c http.followRedirects=true");

I kind of hoped people would look at the documentation for
followRedirects before blindly enabling it. Though I guess the
documentation doesn't really explain the possible security implications,
so maybe it doesn't matter (and they're pretty subtle anyway).

-Peff



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