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mc/credential-helper-www-authenticate (Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2023, #04; Wed, 22))

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Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
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Feb 23, 2023, 05:51 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> * mc/credential-helper-www-authenticate (2023-02-16) 3 commits
>  - credential: add WWW-Authenticate header to cred requests
>  - http: read HTTP WWW-Authenticate response headers
>  - t5563: add tests for basic and anoymous HTTP access
> 
>  Allow information carried on the WWW-AUthenticate header to be
>  passed to the credential helpers.
> 
>  Will merge to 'next'?
>  source: <pull.1352.v10.git.1676586881.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

Aside from some relatively minor touch-ups, this has been fairly stable since v8. I'm happy with it at this point, but I'm also curious to hear Peff's thoughts (since it was his review that prompted the switch to Apache for the test helper, among other changes).

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  1. Junio C HamanoFeb 23, 2023
  2. mc/credential-helper-www-authenticate (Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2023, #04; Wed, 22))Victoria Dye, Feb 23, 2023
  3. Jeff KingFeb 23, 2023
  4. Matthew John CheethamFeb 27, 2023
  5. ab/config-multi-and-nonbool (was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2023, #04; Wed, 22))Glen Choo, Feb 23, 2023
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 23, 2023

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