[gerrit@gerrit etc]$ curl --netrc -v  http://<hostname>/git-http/private/bar.git/HEAD
* About to connect() to <hostname>.de port 80 (#0)
*   Trying 10.0.101.11... connected
* Connected to <hostname>.de (10.0.101.11) port 80 (#0)
* Server auth using Basic with user 'gerrit.codereview'
> GET /git-http/private/bar.git/HEAD HTTP/1.1
> Authorization: Basic Z2Vycml0LmNvZGVyZXZpZXc6Z2VyMjAxMTA4MTYhcml0
> User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.7 NSS/3.12.6.2 zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.18 libssh2/1.2.2
> Host: <hostname>.de
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:09:12 GMT
< Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)
< Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1980 00:00:00 GMT
< Pragma: no-cache
< Cache-Control: no-cache, max-age=0, must-revalidate
< Content-Length: 23
< Last-Modified: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:51:16 GMT
< Connection: close
< Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
<
ref: refs/heads/master
* Closing connection #0