[bitbake-devel] [PATCH] fetch2/git.py: Added handling of the user's password in url

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 6:12 AM, Jakub Dębski
<jakub.debski at enigma.com.pl> wrote:
>> Maybe this is by design to prevent credentials leaking into bitbake
>> recipes.
>>
>> Alternative is to set the usernames, passwords etc in e.g. ~/.netrc
>> and ~/.ssh/config files which have the same effect.
>>
>> -Mikko
>
> Certainly, credentials could be set in other ways, but there is some
> inconsistency with other fetchers (e.g. perforce, wget, hg) which
> use password from SRC_URI.

that merits an entry in bugzilla