Re: OAuth2 support in git?

> Can I use native git as client to contact a git server which does
> authentication with OAuth2 Client Credentials Grant [1]?
> 
> Background: We are running gerrit based git servers [2] in a cloud
> environment. That environment supports OAuth2 authorization for the
> apps running in the cloud. The idea is that clients (e.g. jenkins
> jobs) talking git over http with such git servers should be able to
> use OAuth2 tokens to authenticate clone/fetch requests. We would have
> to adapt gerrit source code for token handling/validation but I am
> asking here about the client side.
> 
> I know that other git server environments like github support that on
> client side by allowing tokens to be used as usernames in a BASIC
> authentication flow. We could do the same but I am asking whether
> there is also a way to transport tokens in a standard conform
> "Authorization: Bearer ..." Header field.