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Read and store the HTTP WWW-Authenticate response headers made for a particular request. This will allow us to pass important authentication challenge information to credential helpers or others that would otherwise have been lost. libcurl only provides us with the ability to read all headers recieved for a particular request, including any intermediate redirect requests or proxies. The lines returned by libcurl include HTTP status lines delinating any intermediate requests such as "HTTP/1.1 200". We use these lines to reset the strvec of WWW-Authenticate header values as we encounter them in order to only capture the final response headers. The collection of all header values matching the WWW-Authenticate header is complicated by the fact that it is legal for header fields to be continued over multiple lines, but libcurl only gives us each physical line a time, not each logical header. This line folding feature is deprecated in RFC 7230 [1] but older servers may still emit them, so we need to handle them. In the future [2] we may be able to leverage functions to read headers from libcurl itself, but as of today we must do this ourselves. [1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7230#section-3.2 [2] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/03/22/a-headers-api-for-libcurl/ Signed-off-by: Matthew John Cheetham <mjcheetham@outlook.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals.
Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License version 2 (some parts of it are under different licenses, compatible with the GPLv2). It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of hackers around the net.
Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
Many Git online resources are accessible from https://git-scm.com/ including full documentation and Git related tools.
See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started, then see
Documentation/giteveryday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, and
Documentation/git-<commandname>.txt for documentation of each command.
If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be
read with man gittutorial or git help tutorial, and the
documentation of each command with man git-<commandname> or git help <commandname>.
CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt
(man gitcvs-migration or git help cvs-migration if git is
installed).
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The name "git" was given by Linus Torvalds when he wrote the very first version. He described the tool as "the stupid content tracker" and the name as (depending on your mood):
- random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
- stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang.
- "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
- "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks