Removing credentials from 'url' for SCM doesn't play well with SSH git repository hosting

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conan 1.12+, previous used version was 1.11

Once upon a time there was a pull request #4207 that changed URLs like ssh://git@a.b.c.d:port/GROUP/repo.git to ssh://a.b.c.d:port/GROUP/repo.git (i.e. without username) for SCM attribute.

Recently I updated to conan 1.18.5 and got a problem.

I’m pulling sources from a GitLab instance via SSH (I can’t change it now to HTTP) and GitLab (I think git hosting services too) doesn’t accept SSH connections without username.

So what options do I have now?

• Every user of package have to execute git config --global url.ssh://git@a.b.c.d:port.insteadOf ssh://a.b.c.d:port, i.e. add config to rewrite URL. It doesn’t scale well.
• Every package developer must hardcode username ‘git’ in the scm attribute i.e.

        "type": "git",
        "username": "git",
        "url": "auto",
        "revision": "auto",
    }

It doesn’t scale too and what if someone wants to use HTTPS and his name is not git?

For me as a user of conan it looks like a regression.

Could you suggest a scalable workaround or fix this issue?

[wizardsd]

Yes, exactly. That is why I’m asking for a suggestion and cannot provide my own solution.

[wizardsd]

I’ve realized, that git supports two kinds of addresses and preparing a PR to support both.