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Re: Https password present in git output

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 13, 2016, 18:09 UTC
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ervion <ervion@cryptolab.net> writes:
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> Sometimes using ssh is not possible and saving https password in plain
> text to disk may be desireable
> (in case of encrypted disk it would be equivalent security with
> caching password in memory).
>
> One possibility for this in git is to save remote in the
> https://username:password@domain.com/repo.git format.

Wasn't netrc support added exactly because users do not want to do this?

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