2016-02-06 0:52 GMT+03:00 Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>: > "brian m. carlson" <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 01:02:58PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >>> Hmph, so documenting that <emptyname>:<emptypassword>@<repository> >>> as a supported way might be an ugly-looking solution to the original >>> problem. A less ugly-looking solution might be a boolean that can >>> be set per URL (we already have urlmatch-config infrastructure to >>> help us do so) to tell us to pass the empty credential to lubCurl, >>> bypassing the step to ask the user for password that we do not use. >>> >>> The end-result of either of these solution would strictly be better >>> than the patch we discussed in that the end user will not have to >>> interact with the prompt at all, right? >> >> Yes, that's true. I'll try to come up with a patch this weekend that >> implements that (maybe remote.forceAuth = true or somesuch). > > Thanks. > > I think the configuration should live inside http.* namespace, as > there are already things like http[.<url>].sslCert and friends. > > I do not have a good suggestion on the name of the leaf-level > variable. ForceAuth sounds as if you are forcing authentication > even when the other side does not require it, though. That would be great! Definitely it will be much better solution than patch I've proposed. -- 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