Re: [PATCH] http_init: accept separate URL parameter

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On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 05:43:16PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> The http_init function takes a "struct remote". Part of its
> initialization procedure is to look at the remote's url and
> grab some auth-related parameters. However, using the url
> included in the remote is:
> 
>   - wrong; the remote-curl helper may have a separate,
>     unrelated URL (e.g., from remote.*.pushurl). Looking at
>     the remote's configured url is incorrect.
> 
>   - incomplete; http-fetch doesn't have a remote, so passes
>     NULL. So http_init never gets to see the URL we are
>     actually going to use.
> 
>   - cumbersome; http-push has a similar problem to
>     http-fetch, but actually builds a fake remote just to
>     pass in the URL.
> 
> Instead, let's just add a separate URL parameter to
> http_init, and all three callsites can pass in the
> appropriate information.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx>

Sorry, I forgot to mention: this is meant to go on top of the
http-auth-keyring topic.

-Peff
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