Re: [egit-dev] Cloning with EGit from Gerrit via http now ask for the PW

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Thomas for the explanation.

I know that the URL without user works, but that makes later Gerrit
contributions harder. But if that based on the server, there is
nothing we can do.

Thanks again, Lars



On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 7:36 PM, Thomas Wolf <thomas.wolf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Lars,
>
> it's a change in Gerrit. The Eclipse Foundation recently upgraded Gerrit.
>
> The URL with /r/a requires authentication.
>
> The URL without /a should allow anonymous access:
>
> git clone https://git.eclipse.org/r/platform/eclipse.platform.images
>
> See also the comments I had left on https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=518641 .
>
> Cheers,
>
>   Thomas
>
> On Jun 29, 2017, at 19:22 , Lars Vogel wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> in my Eclipse training sessions, I  also demonstrates how to clone a
>> Git repo with a user via http.
>>
>> I instruct to copy the URL from the web interface and use Ctrl+3 to
>> trigger "Clone a Git repository". For example, this would be the URL
>>
>> git clone https://lvogel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/r/a/platform/eclipse.platform.images
>>
>> IIRC Egit used to clone the repo without the need for a password.
>>
>> Now EGit ask the user for his PW during the initial cloning operation.
>>
>> Has this intentionally changed?
>>
>> This makes it much harder for the user to simply clone the repo and
>> have it configured correctly for contributions and to decide later if
>> they want to make contributions.
>>
>> Best regards, Lars
>>
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