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Re: [PATCH] http: http.emptyauth should allow empty (not just NULL) usernames

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 3, 2016, 21:58 UTC
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On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 09:54:19PM +0000, David Turner wrote:
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> > I dunno. The code path you are changing _only_ affects anything if the
> > http.emptyauth config is set. But I guess I just don't understand why you
> > would say "http://@gitserver" in the first place. Is that a common thing?
> 
> I have no idea if it is common.  I know that we do it.

I guess my question is: _why_ do you do it? Or more specifically, does http://gitserver.example.com" with http.emptyauth not work, and why?

From your response, I _think_ the answer is "no, it doesn't, and I have no clue why".

So I dunno. It is annoying not to know what is actually going on, but I'm OK with it if we don't think there's a high chance of regressing any other workflows (which I guess not, because http.emptyauth seems to be a Kerberos-specific hack in the first place).

-Peff
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