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

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:18:22 -0700

Mike Hommey <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:28:15PM -0700, Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> 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?