Comments on: How to use HTTP Basic Authentication with git

By: Git Server setup (CentOs) « SilkyMac

Git Server setup (CentOs) « SilkyMac — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:50:19 +0000

[...] http://maymay.net/blog/2008/08/08/how-to-use-http-basic-authentication-with-git/ [...]

By: Rebar and private git repositories « Cartesian Faith

Rebar and private git repositories « Cartesian Faith — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:22:05 +0000

[...] are password protected. Rebar itself has no facility for passing in authentication information, but it turns out that git under the hood uses curl to do HTTP Basic authentication. This means that with HTTP Basic [...]

By: mobi phil

mobi phil — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:59:56 +0000

if you are interested howto do the same with the new git-http-backend:
http://www.mobiphil.com/2010/03/git-on-shared-hosting-with-git-http-backend/

By: Meitar

Meitar — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:36:48 +0000

@mlewis: As I stated in my blog post, the instructions in this setup assume you only want to pull, not push.

By: mlewis

mlewis — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:03:26 +0000

The following step does not work to correct the problem causing error (fatal: git-push is not available for http/https repository when not compiled with USE_CURL_MULTI).

Step 3: Configure curl on your (client) workstation computer

By: blog.veiga.eti.br » Blog Archive » Instalação de Servidor GIT sobre WebDAV e gitweb no Fedora

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:17:51 +0000

[...] * How to use HTTP Basic Authentication with git: http://maymay.net/blog/2008/08/08/how-to-use-http-basic-authentication-with-git * How To Set Up WebDAV With Apache2 On Fedora 10: [...]

By: Darren

Darren — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:10:38 +0000

Thanks for this article, and thanks Robert, i had to have ‘login’ as well.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:06:14 +0000

These instructions were very helpful, though I had to use this as my .netrc file:

machine yourserver.example.com
login your_username
password your_password

Note using “login” rather than “username”