From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:48:03 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802101647050.11591@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <m3wspcg4hg.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Hi,

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > * ab/pserver (Fri Dec 14 04:08:51 2007 +0000) 1 commit
> >  - Authentication support for pserver
> > 
> > This needs careful security audit and a fix to its password database 
> > format.  Plaintext in .git/config is not acceptable.
> 
> Does git-cvsserver understand .netrc?

It is not about the client side of authentication, but the server side.  
So no, git-cvsserver does not, and should not, understand .netrc.

Ciao,
Dscho