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Subject: Re: How to provide authentication along with git command itself ?
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:31:49 +0530
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On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:53:42 +1000
Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:45 PM, J. Bakshi <joydeep@infoservices.in> wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > 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 save the authentication info somewhere within .git
> >
> > Thanks
> 
> You probably want to create the client setup section of this:
> 
>     http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
> 
> Personally, I prefer to use an ssh hosted repository in such cases,
> then use an ssh-agent to cache an SSH private key.
> 
> jon.

Well, I am using version 1.7, hence not DAV but using git-http-backend