Re: [PATCH] Fix problem with authentification on http repository.

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 10:44:58PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> 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?