http: add support for disabling SSL revocation checks in cURL

This adds support for a new http.schannelCheckRevoke config value.

This config value is only used if http.sslBackend is set to "schannel",
which forces cURL to use the Windows Certificate Store when validating
server certificates associated with a remote server.

This config value should only be set to "false" if you are in an
environment where revocation checks are blocked by the network, with
no alternative options.

This is only supported in cURL 7.44 or later.

Note: originally, we wanted to call the config setting
`http.schannel.checkRevoke`. This, however, does not work: the `http.*`
config settings can be limited to specific URLs via `http.<url>.*`
(and this feature would mistake `schannel` for a URL).

Helped by Agustín Martín Barbero.

Signed-off-by: Brendan Forster <github@brendanforster.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index c569e72859..e107f4c1e2 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -2241,6 +2241,14 @@ http.sslBackend::
 	This option is ignored if cURL lacks support for choosing the SSL
 	backend at runtime.
 
+http.schannelCheckRevoke::
+	Used to enforce or disable certificate revocation checks in cURL
+	when http.sslBackend is set to "schannel". Defaults to `true` if
+	unset. Only necessary to disable this if Git consistently errors
+	and the message is about checking the revocation status of a
+	certificate. This option is ignored if cURL lacks support for
+	setting the relevant SSL option at runtime.
+
 http.pinnedpubkey::
 	Public key of the https service. It may either be the filename of
 	a PEM or DER encoded public key file or a string starting with