apache - With Git-Mediawiki, how to acesss a Mediawiki site in a directory protected with .htpasswd? -

i using git-mediawiki access remote mediawiki site via git. wiki site's root directory password procted htpassword. naively using git fetch not work:

git fetch origin password 'http://adminuser0@example.com':  failed log in mediawiki user "adminuser" on http://example.com/mywiki   (error 2: 401 authorization required : error occurred when accessing http://example.com/mywiki/api.php after 1 attempt(s)) fatal: bad object 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 error: mediawiki::http://example.com/mywiki did not send necessary objects 

following git-mediawiki's user manual, have configuration in localrepo/.git/config as

[remote "origin"]     url = mediawiki::http://example.com/mywiki     fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*     mwlogin = adminuser 

any idea? hoping if scripted intermediate step inserted enter user name , password htpasswd protection.