Re: [PATCH] git-send-email: add ~/.authinfo parsing

On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 15:10:40 -0500 Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote: 

JK> Technically you can speak a particular protocol on an alternate port:

JK>   https://example.com:31337/repo.git

JK> In this case, git will send you the host as:

JK>   example.com:31337

JK> You might want to map this to "port" in .autoinfo separately if it's JK> available.

That would create the following possibilities:

* host example.com:31337, protocol https
* host example.com:31337, protocol unspecified
* host example.com, protocol https
* host example.com, protocol unspecified

How would you like each one to be handled? My preference would be to make the user say "host example.com:31337" in the netrc file (the current situation); that's what we do in Emacs and it lets applications request credentials for a logical service no matter what the port is.

It means that example.com credentials won't be used for example.com:31337. In practice, that has not been a problem for us.

Ted