Add an option for using any HTTP authentication scheme, not only basic

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index b77d66da25bfb098c84f249cde721734e04b1b9d..a54ede350f9b7b7b5e64f3d69b348f227633b595 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1158,6 +1158,13 @@ http.noEPSV::
        support EPSV mode. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV'
        environment variable. Default is false (curl will use EPSV).
 
+http.authAny::
+       Allow any HTTP authentication method, not only basic. Enabling
+       this lowers the performance slightly, by having to do requests
+       without any authentication to discover the authentication method
+       to use. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_HTTP_AUTH_ANY'
+       environment variable. Default is false.
+
 i18n.commitEncoding::
        Character encoding the commit messages are stored in; git itself
        does not care per se, but this information is necessary e.g. when