"brian m. carlson" <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > However, I think we need to either decide that we're going to support > this as a fully-fledged feature and add documentation and sufficient > tests, or remove it, since it's not reasonable to have undocumented, > untested features that people rely on. Does "this" refer to "use of netrc in HTTP code paths", or "HTTP walker"? I am kind of surprised that anybody is still using the latter, regardless of where the credential is locally stored. > I will note, as an argument in favour of removal, that we have > git-credential-netrc helper in contrib that users can enable if > they want to retain this functionality, and we could even ship it > by default without much difficulty. I am fine with the approach. Thanks.
