Re: git clone over http with basic auth bug?

2012-09-23 Thread Shawn Pearce
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Paul J R m...@pjr.cc wrote: It hadnt occured to me that git-http-backend behaves differently to the dumb http protocol on read (though that was from reading the git source so i obviously missed what was going on there). Ultimately im writing a little webapp

Re: git clone over http with basic auth bug?

2012-09-21 Thread Jeff King
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 09:37:38AM +1000, Paul J R wrote: Im not sure if this is a bug, or just as implemented. But when cloning from a repo sitting on a web site that uses basic auth, the git client appears to forget its authentication info and ignores the 401's the server is sending back.