Hi: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dnia wtorek 20. lipca 2010 01:25, Ketan Padegaonkar napisał: [snip] > Can't you use ~/.netrc file[1] instead? As far as I see this would not > show password info on error. Not that the current situation should > not be fixed, but it might be worthwhile workaround for a time. > > The ~/.netrc file would look like this for your example: > > machine host > login user > password pass > > You should of course `chmod 600 ~/.netrc` > > [1] This is unfortunately underdocumented: only this documentation > Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt mentions ~/.netrc > file. I think that handling the $HOME/.netrc is done by the curl > library that git uses, see libcurl-tutorial(3) manpage. +1 This is the only way I know of to "hide" your password. Of course, depending on your authentication scheme, your efforts for this setup may prove worthless. -- Cheers, Ray Chuan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html