Don't specify the password on the command line#22
+22 −5
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https://www.netmeister.org/blog/passing-passwords.html has a decent overview of the security issues with that.
Since this is interactive, getting curl to prompt for the password is probably the easiest alternative. From
https://curl.se/docs/manpage.html#-u
I don't have an easy way to test the actual command in this doc, but the flag does seem to behave as documented at least:
Fixesgitgitgadget/gitgitgadget#1843