From: Peter Spierenburg <ionlyusethisaddressforlists@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:35:44 GMT
Subject: Re: git/webdav is refusing to authenticate properly.
Message-ID: <496BE1E0.9010908@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <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:
> 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
>
>