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Re: Git over HTTPS with basic authentication

From
Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Apr 18, 2013, 19:54 UTC
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Sebastian Schmidt <isibboi@gmail.com> writes:
> Why is git not working over HTTPS with basic authentication? I can clone
> just fine, but when I try to push, it tells me

What are you using on the server? Dumb HTTP works by serving the repository files as static pages, which is fundamentally read-only. The recommended way is to use smart-HTTP (see man git-http-backend, requires Git on the server), and the alternative is to use webdav (much slower).

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