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

From: J. Bakshi <joydeep@infoservices.in>
Date: Jul 14, 2011, 10:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20110714162953.36347b76@shiva.selfip.org>
In-Reply-To: <1310640646.18730.10.camel@bee.lab.cmartin.tk>

On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:50:46 +0200 Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> wrote:

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> On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 16:15 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote:
> > 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
> 
> 
>

Thanks for the response. Can I use the same .netrc to store different authentication for different repo ? Is it somehow possible to store the information at the concerned .git of the repo ? I think this will be easier for multiple repos.