From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
jean.guyader@linkea.org, git@vger.kernel.org,
Jean Guyader <jean.guyader@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix problem with authentification on http repository.
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:18:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vhcazlbch.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080709075345.GA22022@glandium.org> (Mike Hommey's message of "Wed, 9 Jul 2008 09:53:46 +0200")
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:28:15PM -0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> ...
>> >> 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.
Ok, so the documentation update I suggested earlier may actually be
valid, right?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-09 8:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-29 22:26 [PATCH] Fix problem with authentification on http repository jean.guyader
2007-09-29 23:10 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-29 23:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-29 23:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-30 0:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-09 5:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-09 5:51 ` Mike Hommey
2008-07-09 6:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-09 7:53 ` Mike Hommey
2008-07-09 8:04 ` Daniel Stenberg
2008-07-09 8:18 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-07-09 8:56 ` Mike Hommey
2008-07-09 11:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-10 7:24 ` Jeff King
2008-07-10 7:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-10 8:47 ` Jeff King
2008-07-10 10:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-10 11:30 ` Andreas Ericsson
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