Re: [PATCH 1/6] http: try http_proxy env var when http.proxy config option is not set

Jeff King <peff <at> peff.net> writes:

> I am very tempted by that, too. In the meantime (and even once that curl
> version comes out and we write the new code, people will still be on the
> older version of curl), we have a fallback: they can use http.proxy if
> they want auth support. It's not as nice as supporting auth on the
> environment variables, but I think it will end up being a lot cleaner.

Sounds good.