From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:38:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix problem with authentification on http repository.
Message-ID: <7v8x6pjb4c.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <11911047823308-git-send-email-jean.guyader@linkea.org>

jean.guyader@linkea.org writes:

> From: Jean Guyader <jean.guyader@gmail.com>
>
> Curl uses the option -u user:passwd and not the user:password
> given in the url.
> The solution was to extract user:password from the url and set
> the option.
>
> Here the regex used :
>         sed -re 's-.*http://([^:]*):([^@]+)@.*-\1:\2-g'

This is more like "allowing embedded authentication credentials
in URL for http transport".

We never supported URLs with embedded credentials (see
Documentation/urls.txt), partly because nobody asked for it, but
more importantly because giving -n to curl to have it read from
user's .netrc is generally much more preferred approach.