Merge branch 'ls/http-ssl-cipher-list'

Introduce http.<url>.SSLCipherList configuration variable to tweak
the list of cipher suite to be used with libcURL when talking with
https:// sites.

* ls/http-ssl-cipher-list:
  http: add support for specifying an SSL cipher list

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 948b8b0e5..efea93356 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1569,6 +1569,19 @@ http.saveCookies::
 	If set, store cookies received during requests to the file specified by
 	http.cookieFile. Has no effect if http.cookieFile is unset.
 
+http.sslCipherList::
+  A list of SSL ciphers to use when negotiating an SSL connection.
+  The available ciphers depend on whether libcurl was built against
+  NSS or OpenSSL and the particular configuration of the crypto
+  library in use.  Internally this sets the 'CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST'
+  option; see the libcurl documentation for more details on the format
+  of this list.
++
+Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST' environment variable.
+To force git to use libcurl's default cipher list and ignore any
+explicit http.sslCipherList option, set 'GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST' to the
+empty string.
+
 http.sslVerify::
 	Whether to verify the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing
 	over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY' environment