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Re: git/webdav is refusing to authenticate properly.

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PSPeter Spierenburg <ionlyusethisaddressforlists@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 13, 2009, 00:35 UTC
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<496BE1E0.9010908@gmail.com>
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0901130003490.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

C'mon, leave my password 'in-the-clear', in a text file on a networked box? That is the kind of prank a fourth-year student would try to pull on a freshman.

How do I really do it?
Peter.
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Peter Spierenburg wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm trying to push a local git repository to a remote site using WebDAV, 
>> but it is eating my lunch.
>>     
>
> Please see Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt.
>
> In short, http-push does not ask for a password interactively, but you 
> have to use .netrc.
>
> Hth,
> Dscho
>
>
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  1. Peter SpierenburgJan 12, 2009
  2. Johannes SchindelinJan 12, 2009
  3. Peter SpierenburgJan 13, 2009
  4. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.Jan 13, 2009
  5. Johannes SchindelinJan 13, 2009
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