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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix problem with authentification on http repository.
From: Junio C Hamano <gitster () pobox ! com>
Date: 2007-09-30 0:02:38
Message-ID: 7v4phdja01.fsf () gitster ! siamese ! dyndns ! org
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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...
---
Documentation/urls.txt | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt
index e67f914..c9aab86 100644
--- a/Documentation/urls.txt
+++ b/Documentation/urls.txt
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ to name the remote repository:
===============================================================
- rsync://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
-- http://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
-- https://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
+- http://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
+- https://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
- git://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
- git://host.xz/~user/path/to/repo.git/
- ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
-
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