On 2021-10-20 at 14:48:04, Junio C Hamano wrote:
"brian m. carlson" [off-list ref] writes:
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Many corporate environments and local systems have proxies in use. Note
the situations in which proxies can be used and how to configure them.
At the same time, note what standards a proxy must follow to work with
Git. Explicitly call out certain classes that are known to routinely
have problems reported various places online, including in the Git for
Windows issue tracker and on Stack Overflow, and recommend against the
use of such software.
The new section only talks about http(s), but I recall Peff recently
helped folks with broken invocation of socat, a relay that does not
handle severing connection only in one direction very well.
I wonder if it fits in this section.
I think it does, and I'll add it in a reroll.
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brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA