#include "string-list.h"
 #include "run-command.h"
 #include "url.h"
+#include "prompt.h"
 
 void credential_init(struct credential *c)
 {
                strbuf_addf(out, "/%s", c->path);
 }
 
-static char *credential_ask_one(const char *what, struct credential *c)
+static char *credential_ask_one(const char *what, struct credential *c,
+                               int flags)
 {
        struct strbuf desc = STRBUF_INIT;
        struct strbuf prompt = STRBUF_INIT;
        else
                strbuf_addf(&prompt, "%s: ", what);
 
-       /* FIXME: for usernames, we should do something less magical that
-        * actually echoes the characters. However, we need to read from
-        * /dev/tty and not stdio, which is not portable (but getpass will do
-        * it for us). http.c uses the same workaround. */
-       r = git_getpass(prompt.buf);
+       r = git_prompt(prompt.buf, flags);
 
        strbuf_release(&desc);
        strbuf_release(&prompt);
 static void credential_getpass(struct credential *c)
 {
        if (!c->username)
-               c->username = credential_ask_one("Username", c);
+               c->username = credential_ask_one("Username", c,
+                                                PROMPT_ASKPASS|PROMPT_ECHO);
        if (!c->password)
-               c->password = credential_ask_one("Password", c);
+               c->password = credential_ask_one("Password", c,
+                                                PROMPT_ASKPASS);
 }
 
 int credential_read(struct credential *c, FILE *fp)
                } else if (!strcmp(key, "path")) {
                        free(c->path);
                        c->path = xstrdup(value);
+               } else if (!strcmp(key, "url")) {
+                       credential_from_url(c, value);
                }
                /*
                 * Ignore other lines; we don't know what they mean, but
        fprintf(fp, "%s=%s\n", key, value);
 }
 
-static void credential_write(const struct credential *c, FILE *fp)
+void credential_write(const struct credential *c, FILE *fp)
 {
        credential_write_item(fp, "protocol", c->protocol);
        credential_write_item(fp, "host", c->host);