Merge branch 'sp/maint-http-enable-gzip' into maint

"git fetch" over http advertised that it supports "deflate", which
is much less common, and did not advertise more common "gzip" on its
Accept-Encoding header.

* sp/maint-http-enable-gzip:
  Enable info/refs gzip decompression in HTTP client

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index 9bac1d89fd..345c171c5f 100644
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c
@@ -818,6 +818,7 @@ static int http_request(const char *url, void *result, int target, int options)
 
 	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_URL, url);
 	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headers);
+	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "gzip");
 
 	if (start_active_slot(slot)) {
 		run_active_slot(slot);