Hi, On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > jean.guyader@xxxxxxxxxx writes: > > > From: Jean Guyader <jean.guyader@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > Curl uses the option -u user:passwd and not the user:password > > given in the url. > > The solution was to extract user:password from the url and set > > the option. > > > > Here the regex used : > > sed -re 's-.*http://([^:]*):([^@]+)@.*-\1:\2-g' > > This is more like "allowing embedded authentication credentials > in URL for http transport". > > We never supported URLs with embedded credentials (see > Documentation/urls.txt), partly because nobody asked for it, but > more importantly because giving -n to curl to have it read from > user's .netrc is generally much more preferred approach. To elaborate on that: if you fetch from somewhere, your url, username and password can be read from the output of "ps ax | grep http" very easily. Ciao, Dscho - 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