How to push to http(s) repository with authentication?

Hello,

I have set up a repository as described in

  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt

over SSL with basic authentication. DAV access works fine with konqueror, cadaver and and curl, using this .curlrc:

   $ cat ~/.curlrc
   --cacert /etc/cacerts/myca.pem
   --user   user
   $ curl https://repo.host.org/git/test/HEAD
   Enter host password for user 'user':
   ref: refs/heads/master
   $

But when called from git, this file seems to be ignored. I have checked google, but the only hint I could find was to put credentials into ~/.netrc. IMHO, this is a bad workaround, since this implies to have unencrypted passwords lying around on the disk.

Any hints?

PS: I have asked a similar question a couple of days ago.  Here is a link
    to my original mail with more information how I set up the server:

      http://marc.info/?l=git&m=122426078301793&w=2