diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 98c1f3e2e3..84e38911ee 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -202,6 +202,12 @@ http.lowSpeedLimit, http.lowSpeedTime::
 	Can be overridden by the 'GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT' and
 	'GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_TIME' environment variables.
 
+http.noEPSV::
+	A boolean which disables using of EPSV ftp command by curl.
+	This can helpful with some "poor" ftp servers which doesn't
+	support EPSV mode. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV'
+	environment variable. Default is false (curl will use EPSV).
+
 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
diff --git a/git-clone.sh b/git-clone.sh
index e1b3bf382f..3998c55cef 100755
--- a/git-clone.sh
+++ b/git-clone.sh
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ clone_dumb_http () {
 	cd "$2" &&
 	clone_tmp="$GIT_DIR/clone-tmp" &&
 	mkdir -p "$clone_tmp" || exit 1
+	if [ -n "$GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV" -o \
+		"`git-repo-config --bool http.noEPSV`" = true ]; then
+		curl_extra_args="${curl_extra_args} --disable-epsv"
+	fi
 	http_fetch "$1/info/refs" "$clone_tmp/refs" || {
 		echo >&2 "Cannot get remote repository information.
 Perhaps git-update-server-info needs to be run there?"
diff --git a/git-fetch.sh b/git-fetch.sh
index 50ad101e89..bcc67ab0b0 100755
--- a/git-fetch.sh
+++ b/git-fetch.sh
@@ -289,6 +289,10 @@ fetch_main () {
 	  if [ -n "$GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY" ]; then
 	      curl_extra_args="-k"
 	  fi
+	  if [ -n "$GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV" -o \
+		"`git-repo-config --bool http.noEPSV`" = true ]; then
+	      noepsv_opt="--disable-epsv"
+	  fi
 	  max_depth=5
 	  depth=0
 	  head="ref: $remote_name"
@@ -300,7 +304,7 @@ fetch_main () {
 	      $u =~ s{([^-a-zA-Z0-9/.])}{sprintf"%%%02x",ord($1)}eg;
 	      print "$u";
 	  ' "$head")
-	    head=$(curl -nsfL $curl_extra_args "$remote/$remote_name_quoted")
+	    head=$(curl -nsfL $curl_extra_args $noepsv_opt "$remote/$remote_name_quoted")
 	    depth=$( expr \( $depth + 1 \) )
 	  done
 	  expr "z$head" : "z$_x40\$" >/dev/null ||
diff --git a/git-ls-remote.sh b/git-ls-remote.sh
index 2c0b52122f..0f88953f29 100755
--- a/git-ls-remote.sh
+++ b/git-ls-remote.sh
@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ http://* | https://* | ftp://* )
         if [ -n "$GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY" ]; then
             curl_extra_args="-k"
         fi
+	if [ -n "$GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV" -o \
+		"`git-repo-config --bool http.noEPSV`" = true ]; then
+		curl_extra_args="${curl_extra_args} --disable-epsv"
+	fi
 	curl -nsf $curl_extra_args --header "Pragma: no-cache" "$peek_repo/info/refs" ||
 		echo "failed	slurping"
 	;;
diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index 6c1937b676..576740feff 100644
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ char *ssl_capath = NULL;
 char *ssl_cainfo = NULL;
 long curl_low_speed_limit = -1;
 long curl_low_speed_time = -1;
+int curl_ftp_no_epsv = 0;
 
 struct curl_slist *pragma_header;
 
@@ -155,6 +156,11 @@ static int http_options(const char *var, const char *value)
 		return 0;
 	}
 
+	if (!strcmp("http.noepsv", var)) {
+		curl_ftp_no_epsv = git_config_bool(var, value);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	/* Fall back on the default ones */
 	return git_default_config(var, value);
 }
@@ -196,6 +202,9 @@ static CURL* get_curl_handle(void)
 
 	curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, GIT_USER_AGENT);
 
+	if (curl_ftp_no_epsv)
+		curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPSV, 0);
+
 	return result;
 }
 
@@ -251,6 +260,9 @@ void http_init(void)
 		max_requests = DEFAULT_MAX_REQUESTS;
 #endif
 
+	if (getenv("GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV"))
+		curl_ftp_no_epsv = 1;
+
 #ifndef NO_CURL_EASY_DUPHANDLE
 	curl_default = get_curl_handle();
 #endif