On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 01:02:58PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Hmph, so documenting that <emptyname>:<emptypassword>@<repository>
> as a supported way might be an ugly-looking solution to the original
> problem.  A less ugly-looking solution might be a boolean that can
> be set per URL (we already have urlmatch-config infrastructure to
> help us do so) to tell us to pass the empty credential to lubCurl,
> bypassing the step to ask the user for password that we do not use.
> 
> The end-result of either of these solution would strictly be better
> than the patch we discussed in that the end user will not have to
> interact with the prompt at all, right?

Yes, that's true.  I'll try to come up with a patch this weekend that
implements that (maybe remote.forceAuth = true or somesuch).
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