Re: [PATCH] Fix problem with authentification on http repository.

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 9, 2008, 08:18 UTC
Message-ID: <7vhcazlbch.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080709075345.GA22022@glandium.org>

Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:

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> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:28:15PM -0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> ...
>> >> Actually Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
>> >> talks about http://user@server/path/ format.  How well does this
>> >> work in practice?  If it does, we should update Documentation/urls.txt
>> >> to allow optional user@ there like...
>> >
>> > AFAIK, there is nothing to deal with asking a password to the user in git
>> > in this case, so that doesn't work.
>> 
>> Then perhaps the howto needs updating?
>
> Actually, the howto tells to setup a ~/.netrc file, which should make
> the http://user@server/path/ format work. I don't know if dropping user@
> would still work, that depends how libcurl works with it.

Ok, so the documentation update I suggested earlier may actually be valid, right?