Currently, urls of the for git://user@host don't work because user@host is not resolving at the DNS level, but we shouldn't be relying on it being an invalid host name, and actively reject it for containing a username in the first place. Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- connect.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/connect.c b/connect.c index 0c4d23b..9aea3cd 100644 --- a/connect.c +++ b/connect.c @@ -730,6 +730,9 @@ struct child_process *git_connect(int fd[2], const char *url, const char *colon = strchr(host, ':'); char *override_vhost = getenv("GIT_OVERRIDE_VIRTUAL_HOST"); + if (user) + die("user@host is not allowed in git:// urls"); + /* If the host contains a colon (ipv6 address), it needs to * be enclosed with square brackets. */ if (colon) -- 2.8.3 -- 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