From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 17:06:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Git over HTTP; have flexible SASL authentication
Message-ID: <xmqq7cx7aov7.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20230127163434.GA784@openfortress.nl>

Rick van Rein <rick@openfortress.nl> writes:

> Git providers are inventing proprietary extensions to HTTP authentication
> for Git.  It seems smarter to use SASL for this purpose, possibly allowing
> the client a choice and authentication ringback to the client's own domain.

To adopt things like this, the work to extend how to make extensible
what is on WWW-Authenticate in the thread that contains this recent
message https://lore.kernel.org/git/Y9LvFMzriAWUsS58@coredump.intra.peff.net/
may be relevant, perhaps?