Re: [PATCH 0/1] Fix netrc usage with WebDAV-based HTTP protocol

From: Peter Georg <peter.georg@physik.uni-regensburg.de>
Date: Feb 26, 2025, 12:38 UTC
Message-ID: <5d53acf4-9d46-4fa7-9430-ac9c5ce47862@physik.uni-regensburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20250223015331.588161-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>

On 23/02/2025 02.53, brian m. carlson wrote:

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> I will note, as an argument in favour of removal, that
> we have git-credential-netrc helper in contrib that users can enable if
> they want to retain this functionality, and we could even ship it by
> default without much difficulty.  For those reasons, I am not planning
> to add more tests and documentation here, but of course I welcome
> interested parties to do so.

This approach seems reasonable to me. I personally, for example, did not even know that the git-credential-netrc helper exists, but it obviously works for me. Thus it would probably make sense to somehow document this, at least once the undocumented feature of directly using credentials specified in netrc is not working anymore.