On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:28:15PM -0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mike Hommey <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 10:44:58PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > >> > >> > On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> > > >> >> 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. > >> > >> Actually Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt > >> talks about http://user@server/path/ format. How well does this > >> work in practice? If it does, we should update Documentation/urls.txt > >> to allow optional user@ there like... > > > > AFAIK, there is nothing to deal with asking a password to the user in git > > in this case, so that doesn't work. > > Then perhaps the howto needs updating? Actually, the howto tells to setup a ~/.netrc file, which should make the http://user@server/path/ format work. I don't know if dropping user@ would still work, that depends how libcurl works with it. Mike -- 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
