Allow HTTP user agent string to be modified.

[git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index e75434b3ef2d81fa8dafd552d4b689eb84eea441..8cd8b6750d6c3d51bab461a1d645800a409f4022 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1243,6 +1243,15 @@ 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.useragent::
+       The HTTP USER_AGENT string presented to an HTTP server.  The default
+       value represents the version of the client git such as git/1.7.1.
+       This option allows you to override this value to a more common value
+       such as Mozilla/4.0.  This may be necessary, for instance, if
+       connecting through a firewall that restricts HTTP connections to a set
+       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.
+
 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