Reduce the number of unauthenticated calls to your Git server

When using the Git HTTP protocol, you can force the use of username/password authentication for all pull, push, fetch, and ls-remote operations.

Procedure

Stop your Tomcat server.
Open the following file to edit it:
<tomcat_path>\WEB-INF\classes\configuration.properties
Add the following line:
git.conf.http.onlyUsernamePasswordAuth=true
Restart your Apache Tomcat server.

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