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Subject: Re: How to provide authentication along with git command itself ?
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:29:53 +0530
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On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:50:46 +0200
Carlos Mart=C3=ADn Nieto <cmn@elego.de> wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 16:15 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >=20
> > During git push or fetch over http , I need to provide username and
> > password every time, as protected by apache htpasswd file. How can =
I
> > provide the same along with git command ? Or something so that It s=
ave
> > the authentication info somewhere within .git=20
>=20
> The http transport uses the ~/.netrc file to get its authentication
> data.  `man netrc` will tell you about the syntax; for git, you need =
the
> 'machine', 'login' and 'password' fields.
>=20
> Cheers,
>    cmn
>=20
>=20
>=20

Thanks for the response. Can I use the same .netrc to store different a=
uthentication for different repo ? Is it somehow possible to store the =
information at the concerned .git of the repo ? I think this will be ea=
sier for multiple repos.