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Re: git clone over http with basic auth bug?

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Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Sep 23, 2012, 17:21 UTC
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On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Paul J R <me@pjr.cc> wrote:
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> It hadnt occured to me that git-http-backend behaves differently to the
> "dumb" http protocol on read (though that was from reading the git source so
> i obviously missed what was going on there). Ultimately im writing a little
> webapp that wraps around git-http-backend for some git repository management
> and on reads i've been just "acting like webserver" but on writes i throw
> off to git-http-backend. But seeing it do authenticated reads properly via
> git-http-backend im going to change how it functions, cause that does work
> with older clients.

It works back as far as 1.6.6 as a client. Clients before 1.6.6 can't use git-http-backend. Fortunately 1.6.6 is pretty old, its nearly 3 years ago (Dec 23, 2009).

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