Re: [PATCH] Fix problem with authentification on http repository.

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> We never supported URLs with embedded credentials (see
> >> Documentation/urls.txt), partly because nobody asked for it, but
> >> more importantly because giving -n to curl to have it read from
> >> user's .netrc is generally much more preferred approach.
> >
> > To elaborate on that: if you fetch from somewhere, your url, username and 
> > password can be read from the output of "ps ax | grep http" very easily.
> 
> Actually Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
> talks about http://user@server/path/ format.  How well does this
> work in practice?  If it does, we should update Documentation/urls.txt
> to allow optional user@ there like...