merge(3p/git): Merge git upstream at v2.26.2 r/808

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/third_party/git/Documentation/config/http.txt b/third_party/git/Documentation/config/http.txt
index 5a32f5b0a5a9..e806033aab86 100644
--- a/third_party/git/Documentation/config/http.txt
+++ b/third_party/git/Documentation/config/http.txt
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ http.saveCookies::
 http.version::
 	Use the specified HTTP protocol version when communicating with a server.
 	If you want to force the default. The available and default version depend
-	on libcurl. Actually the possible values of
+	on libcurl. Currently the possible values of
 	this option are:
 
 	- HTTP/2
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ http.sslVersion::
 	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
+	for the ssl version supported. Currently the possible values of
 	this option are:
 
 	- sslv2
@@ -199,6 +199,14 @@ http.postBuffer::
 	Transfer-Encoding: chunked is used to avoid creating a
 	massive pack file locally.  Default is 1 MiB, which is
 	sufficient for most requests.
++
+Note that raising this limit is only effective for disabling chunked
+transfer encoding and therefore should be used only where the remote
+server or a proxy only supports HTTP/1.0 or is noncompliant with the
+HTTP standard.  Raising this is not, in general, an effective solution
+for most push problems, but can increase memory consumption
+significantly since the entire buffer is allocated even for small
+pushes.
 
 http.lowSpeedLimit, http.lowSpeedTime::
 	If the HTTP transfer speed is less than 'http.lowSpeedLimit'