From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:51:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix problem with authentification on http repository.
Message-ID: <20080709055150.GA28482@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v4p6zmx0l.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 10:44:58PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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...

AFAIK, there is nothing to deal with asking a password to the user in git
in this case, so that doesn't work.

Mike