Simon.Richter@xxxxxxxxxx writes: > +http.authMethod:: > + Set the method with which to authenticate to the HTTP server, if > + required. This can be overridden on a per-remote basis; see > + `remote.<name>.authMethod`. Both can be overridden by the > + `GIT_HTTP_AUTHMETHOD` environment variable. Possible values are: > ++ > +-- > +* `anyauth` - Automatically pick a suitable authentication method. It is > + assumed that the server answers an unauthenticated request with a 401 > + status code and one or more WWW-Authenticate headers with supported > + authentication methods. This is the default. > +* `basic` - HTTP Basic authentication > +* `digest` - HTTP Digest authentication; this prevents the password from being > + transmitted to the server in clear text > +* `negotiate` - GSS-Negotiate authentication (compare the --negotiate option > + of `curl(1)`) > +* `ntlm` - NTLM authentication (compare the --ntlm option of `curl(1)`) > +-- The above makes sense. Configuring this variable per URL, just like all other variables in "http.*" namespace, we should be able to use the "http.<url>.*" mechanism that the users are already familiar with. > diff --git a/Documentation/config/remote.txt b/Documentation/config/remote.txt > index 0678b4bcfe..0f87234427 100644 > --- a/Documentation/config/remote.txt > +++ b/Documentation/config/remote.txt > @@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ remote.<name>.url:: > remote.<name>.pushurl:: > The push URL of a remote repository. See linkgit:git-push[1]. > > +remote.<name>.authMethod:: > + For http and https remotes, the method to use for > + authenticating against the server. See `http.authMethod`. IOW, this looks out of place.
