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

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

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/