http: add support for specifying the SSL version

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 43bb53c0477276d81af484cdb64855698b6a635b..8d334c50e0d0ad1c7d506d69a1bc2016e07540ba 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1576,6 +1576,29 @@ 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.sslVersion::
+       The SSL version to use when negotiating an SSL connection, if you
+       want to force the default.  The available and default version
+       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_VERSION' option; see the libcurl
+       documentation for more details on the format of this option and
+       for the ssl version supported. Actually the possible values of
+       this option are:
+
+       - sslv2
+       - sslv3
+       - tlsv1
+       - tlsv1.0
+       - tlsv1.1
+       - tlsv1.2
+
++
+Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_VERSION' environment variable.
+To force git to use libcurl's default ssl version and ignore any
+explicit http.sslversion option, set 'GIT_SSL_VERSION' to the
+empty string.
+
 http.sslCipherList::
   A list of SSL ciphers to use when negotiating an SSL connection.
   The available ciphers depend on whether libcurl was built against