Merge branch 'jk/http-walker-limit-redirect-2.9'

Transport with dumb http can be fooled into following foreign URLs
that the end user does not intend to, especially with the server
side redirects and http-alternates mechanism, which can lead to
security issues.  Tighten the redirection and make it more obvious
to the end user when it happens.

* jk/http-walker-limit-redirect-2.9:
  http: treat http-alternates like redirects
  http: make redirects more obvious
  remote-curl: rename shadowed options variable
  http: always update the base URL for redirects
  http: simplify update_url_from_redirect

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index a0ab66aae7..d51182a060 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1891,6 +1891,16 @@ http.userAgent::
 	of common USER_AGENT strings (but not including those like git/1.7.1).
 	Can be overridden by the `GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT` environment variable.
 
+http.followRedirects::
+	Whether git should follow HTTP redirects. If set to `true`, git
+	will transparently follow any redirect issued by a server it
+	encounters. If set to `false`, git will treat all redirects as
+	errors. If set to `initial`, git will follow redirects only for
+	the initial request to a remote, but not for subsequent
+	follow-up HTTP requests. Since git uses the redirected URL as
+	the base for the follow-up requests, this is generally
+	sufficient. The default is `initial`.
+
 http.<url>.*::
 	Any of the http.* options above can be applied selectively to some URLs.
 	For a config key to match a URL, each element of the config key is