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The Pull Request at https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/1601 adds support for choosing the SSL backend at runtime to cURL, and will hopefully be merged before version 7.56.0 comes out. Git for Windows will ship with those patches backported to 7.54.1 (and come August 9th, 2017, 7.55.0 and later). This patch adds the Git side of that feature: by setting http.sslBackend to "openssl" or "schannel", Git for Windows can now choose the SSL backend at runtime. This comes in handy because Secure Channel ("schannel") is the native Windows solution, accessing the Windows Credential Store, thereby allowing for enterprise-wide management of certificates. For historical reasons, Git for Windows needs to support OpenSSL still, as it has previously been the only supported SSL backend in Git for Windows for almost a decade. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>