Performing GSS-Negotiate authentication using Kerberos does not require
specifying a username or password, since that information is already
included in the ticket itself.  However, libcurl refuses to perform
authentication if it has not been provided with a username and password.
Add an option, http.emptyAuth, that provides libcurl with an empty
username and password to make it attempt authentication anyway.
---
I'm not super excited about this name, but I couldn't think of a better
one.  Suggestions welcome.

 Documentation/config.txt |  6 ++++++
 http.c                   | 13 +++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 27f02be3..f11de77e 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1648,6 +1648,12 @@ http.proxyAuthMethod::
 * `ntlm` - NTLM authentication (compare the --ntlm option of `curl(1)`)
 --
 
+http.emptyAuth::
+       Attempt authentication without seeking a username or password.  This
+       can be used to attempt GSS-Negotiate authentication without specifying
+       a username in the URL, as libcurl normally requires a username for
+       authentication.
+
 http.cookieFile::
        File containing previously stored cookie lines which should be used
        in the Git http session, if they match the server. The file format
diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index dfc53c1e..a12a804b 100644
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ static int curl_save_cookies;
 struct credential http_auth = CREDENTIAL_INIT;
 static int http_proactive_auth;
 static const char *user_agent;
+static int curl_empty_auth;
 
 #if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM >= 0x071700
 /* Use CURLOPT_KEYPASSWD as is */
@@ -299,14 +300,22 @@ static int http_options(const char *var, const char 
*value, void *cb)
        if (!strcmp("http.useragent", var))
                return git_config_string(&user_agent, var, value);
 
+       if (!strcmp("http.emptyauth", var)) {
+               curl_empty_auth = git_config_bool(var, value);
+               return 0;
+       }
+
        /* Fall back on the default ones */
        return git_default_config(var, value, cb);
 }
 
 static void init_curl_http_auth(CURL *result)
 {
-       if (!http_auth.username)
+       if (!http_auth.username) {
+               if (curl_empty_auth)
+                       curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_USERPWD, ":");
                return;
+       }
 
        credential_fill(&http_auth);
 
@@ -827,7 +836,7 @@ struct active_request_slot *get_active_slot(void)
 #ifdef LIBCURL_CAN_HANDLE_AUTH_ANY
        curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, http_auth_methods);
 #endif
-       if (http_auth.password)
+       if (http_auth.password || curl_empty_auth)
                init_curl_http_auth(slot->curl);
 
        return slot;
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