From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:12:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow git to use any HTTP authentication method.
Message-ID: <be6fef0d0912280412w58401f10n972f9198144cd580@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0912281406210.5582@cone.home.martin.st>

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st> wrote:
> Hi Lénaďc,
>
> On Mon, 28 Dec 2009, Lénaďc Huard wrote:
>
>> The attached patch makes git configure libcurl to negotiate the most suitable
>> HTTP authentication method.
>> Thanks to that patch, I manage to clone and fetch my git repository hosted on
>> my web server requesting an authentication through the « Digest  » method.
>
> Something similar has already been queued for inclusion, and is available
> in the branch 'next', in commit b8ac923010484908d8426cb8ded5ad7e8c21a7f6.
> The patch available there requires you to set http.authAny for the libcurl
> option to be enabled.

...or setting the environment variable GIT_HTTP_AUTH_ANY.

(by the way, Martin was referring to setting http.authAny in your git
configuration.)

-- 
Cheers,
Ray Chuan