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Re: What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2017, #03; Wed, 8)

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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Mar 9, 2017, 22:00 UTC
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Hi Junio,
On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> * jk/http-auth (2017-02-27) 2 commits
>   (merged to 'next' on 2017-03-02 at 87f81b4395)
>  + http: add an "auto" mode for http.emptyauth
>  + http: restrict auth methods to what the server advertises
> 
>  Reduce authentication round-trip over HTTP when the server supports
>  just a single authentication method.

Not only that. It fixes a bug where empty credentials were sent to a server that did not declare to Negotiate (in which case empty credentials are literally useless, and very likely incorrect).

Ciao, Johannes

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Message 5 of 5 in “What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2017, #03; Wed, 8)”
  1. Junio C HamanoMar 8, 2017
  2. brian m. carlsonMar 9, 2017
  3. Junio C HamanoMar 10, 2017
  4. Jonathan TanMar 9, 2017
  5. Johannes SchindelinMar 9, 2017

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