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Re: How to provide authentication along with git command itself ?

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Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 14, 2011, 10:53 UTC
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On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:45 PM, J. Bakshi <joydeep@infoservices.in> wrote:
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> Hello list,
>
> During git push or fetch over http , I need to provide username and password every time, as protected by apache htpasswd file. How can I provide the same along with git command ? Or something so that It save the authentication info somewhere within .git
>
> Thanks
You probably want to create the client setup section of this:
    http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt

Personally, I prefer to use an ssh hosted repository in such cases, then use an ssh-agent to cache an SSH private key.

jon.
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