From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:16:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/14] http: use hostname in credential description
Message-ID: <7vk4anzuvf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110722221337.GA15753@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I expect those cases to be even less common, of course, but it's nice
> that it's straightforward to support them.
>
>> > I tried to optimize for the common case (many repos under one identity)
>> > than the uncommon (many identities under one host).
>> 
>> As I am not convinced if this statement is true.
>
> I admit I don't have any data beyond my own experiences. GitHub tends
> towards the concept of a single identity, and it has some group
> management. I don't know about other sites, though. Do you have any
> specific examples in mind?

I think I heard Shawn talk about Gerrit installations where multiple
instances that serve separate userbases are behind a shared Apache
front-end that would be problematic with this limitation.