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Re: do without .netrc

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Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date
Aug 6, 2008, 10:50 UTC
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<20080806105022.GX32057@genesis.frugalware.org>
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On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 11:17:48AM +0200, Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Not having the password on disk[?!]
I think you can't avoid so (we are talking about http).

There is no such thing as ssh-agent for http, and typing the password for each pull or push is boring. (OK, this is subjective, but I think nobody types his/her pass on every push/pull.)

You could have the password in the URL, but the it's in .git/config, even worse.

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