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Re: How to provide authentication along with git command itself ?

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Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Date
Jul 14, 2011, 10:50 UTC
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<1310640646.18730.10.camel@bee.lab.cmartin.tk>
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On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 16:15 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote:
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> Hello list,
> 
> During git push or fetch over http , I need to provide username and
> password every time, as protected by apache htpasswd file. How can I
> provide the same along with git command ? Or something so that It save
> the authentication info somewhere within .git

The http transport uses the ~/.netrc file to get its authentication data. `man netrc` will tell you about the syntax; for git, you need the 'machine', 'login' and 'password' fields.

Cheers,
   cmn
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