thodg/libgit2

diff --git a/docs/changelog.md b/docs/changelog.md
index 563c5c9..1ca7049 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.md
+++ b/docs/changelog.md
@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 v0.28 + 1
 ---------
 
+### Breaking API changes
+
+* The "private" implementation details of the `git_cred` structure have been
+  moved to a dedicated `git2/sys/cred.h` header, to clarify that the underlying
+  structures are only provided for custom transport implementers.
+  The breaking change is that the `username` member of the underlying struct
+  is now hidden, and a new `git_cred_get_username` function has been provided.
+
 ### Breaking CMake configuration changes
 
 * The CMake option to use a system http-parser library, instead of the
diff --git a/include/git2.h b/include/git2.h
index c07c260..82ac1d3 100644
--- a/include/git2.h
+++ b/include/git2.h
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include "git2/commit.h"
 #include "git2/common.h"
 #include "git2/config.h"
+#include "git2/cred.h"
 #include "git2/deprecated.h"
 #include "git2/describe.h"
 #include "git2/diff.h"
diff --git a/include/git2/cred.h b/include/git2/cred.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e89ab23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/git2/cred.h
@@ -0,0 +1,308 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) the libgit2 contributors. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This file is part of libgit2, distributed under the GNU GPL v2 with
+ * a Linking Exception. For full terms see the included COPYING file.
+ */
+#ifndef INCLUDE_git_cred_h__
+#define INCLUDE_git_cred_h__
+
+#include "common.h"
+
+/**
+ * @file git2/cred.h
+ * @brief Git authentication & credential management
+ * @defgroup git_cred Authentication & credential management
+ * @ingroup Git
+ * @{
+ */
+GIT_BEGIN_DECL
+
+/**
+ * Supported credential types
+ *
+ * This represents the various types of authentication methods supported by
+ * the library.
+ */
+typedef enum {
+	/**
+	 * A vanilla user/password request
+	 * @see git_cred_userpass_plaintext_new
+	 */
+	GIT_CREDTYPE_USERPASS_PLAINTEXT = (1u << 0),
+
+	/**
+	 * An SSH key-based authentication request
+	 * @see git_cred_ssh_key_new
+	 */
+	GIT_CREDTYPE_SSH_KEY = (1u << 1),
+
+	/**
+	 * An SSH key-based authentication request, with a custom signature
+	 * @see git_cred_ssh_custom_new
+	 */
+	GIT_CREDTYPE_SSH_CUSTOM = (1u << 2),
+
+	/**
+	 * An NTLM/Negotiate-based authentication request.
+	 * @see git_cred_default
+	 */
+	GIT_CREDTYPE_DEFAULT = (1u << 3),
+
+	/**
+	 * An SSH interactive authentication request
+	 * @see git_cred_ssh_interactive_new
+	 */
+	GIT_CREDTYPE_SSH_INTERACTIVE = (1u << 4),
+
+	/**
+	 * Username-only authentication request
+	 *
+	 * Used as a pre-authentication step if the underlying transport
+	 * (eg. SSH, with no username in its URL) does not know which username
+	 * to use.
+	 *
+	 * @see git_cred_username_new
+	 */
+	GIT_CREDTYPE_USERNAME = (1u << 5),
+
+	/**
+	 * An SSH key-based authentication request
+	 *
+	 * Allows credentials to be read from memory instead of files.
+	 * Note that because of differences in crypto backend support, it might
+	 * not be functional.
+	 *
+	 * @see git_cred_ssh_key_memory_new
+	 */
+	GIT_CREDTYPE_SSH_MEMORY = (1u << 6),
+} git_credtype_t;
+
+/**
+ * The base structure for all credential types
+ */
+typedef struct git_cred git_cred;
+
+typedef struct git_cred_userpass_plaintext git_cred_userpass_plaintext;
+
+/** Username-only credential information */
+typedef struct git_cred_username git_cred_username;
+
+/** A key for NTLM/Kerberos "default" credentials */
+typedef struct git_cred git_cred_default;
+
+/**
+ * A ssh key from disk
+ */
+typedef struct git_cred_ssh_key git_cred_ssh_key;
+
+/**
+ * Keyboard-interactive based ssh authentication
+ */
+typedef struct git_cred_ssh_interactive git_cred_ssh_interactive;
+
+/**
+ * A key with a custom signature function
+ */
+typedef struct git_cred_ssh_custom git_cred_ssh_custom;
+
+/**
+ * Credential acquisition callback.
+ *
+ * This callback is usually involved any time another system might need
+ * authentication. As such, you are expected to provide a valid git_cred
+ * object back, depending on allowed_types (a git_credtype_t bitmask).
+ *
+ * Note that most authentication details are your responsibility - this
+ * callback will be called until the authentication succeeds, or you report
+ * an error. As such, it's easy to get in a loop if you fail to stop providing
+ * the same incorrect credentials.
+ *
+ * @param cred The newly created credential object.
+ * @param url The resource for which we are demanding a credential.
+ * @param username_from_url The username that was embedded in a "user\@host"
+ *                          remote url, or NULL if not included.
+ * @param allowed_types A bitmask stating which cred types are OK to return.
+ * @param payload The payload provided when specifying this callback.
+ * @return 0 for success, < 0 to indicate an error, > 0 to indicate
+ *       no credential was acquired
+ */
+typedef int GIT_CALLBACK(git_cred_acquire_cb)(
+	git_cred **cred,
+	const char *url,
+	const char *username_from_url,
+	unsigned int allowed_types,
+	void *payload);
+
+/**
+ * Free a credential.
+ *
+ * This is only necessary if you own the object; that is, if you are a
+ * transport.
+ *
+ * @param cred the object to free
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(void) git_cred_free(git_cred *cred);
+
+/**
+ * Check whether a credential object contains username information.
+ *
+ * @param cred object to check
+ * @return 1 if the credential object has non-NULL username, 0 otherwise
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(int) git_cred_has_username(git_cred *cred);
+
+/**
+ * Return the username associated with a credential object.
+ *
+ * @param cred object to check
+ * @return the credential username, or NULL if not applicable
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(const char *) git_cred_get_username(git_cred *cred);
+
+/**
+ * Create a new plain-text username and password credential object.
+ * The supplied credential parameter will be internally duplicated.
+ *
+ * @param out The newly created credential object.
+ * @param username The username of the credential.
+ * @param password The password of the credential.
+ * @return 0 for success or an error code for failure
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(int) git_cred_userpass_plaintext_new(
+	git_cred **out,
+	const char *username,
+	const char *password);
+
+/**
+ * Create a "default" credential usable for Negotiate mechanisms like NTLM
+ * or Kerberos authentication.
+ *
+ * @return 0 for success or an error code for failure
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(int) git_cred_default_new(git_cred **out);
+
+/**
+ * Create a credential to specify a username.
+ *
+ * This is used with ssh authentication to query for the username if
+ * none is specified in the url.
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(int) git_cred_username_new(git_cred **cred, const char *username);
+
+/**
+ * Create a new passphrase-protected ssh key credential object.
+ * The supplied credential parameter will be internally duplicated.
+ *
+ * @param out The newly created credential object.
+ * @param username username to use to authenticate
+ * @param publickey The path to the public key of the credential.
+ * @param privatekey The path to the private key of the credential.
+ * @param passphrase The passphrase of the credential.
+ * @return 0 for success or an error code for failure
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(int) git_cred_ssh_key_new(
+	git_cred **out,
+	const char *username,
+	const char *publickey,
+	const char *privatekey,
+	const char *passphrase);
+
+/**
+ * Create a new ssh key credential object reading the keys from memory.
+ *
+ * @param out The newly created credential object.
+ * @param username username to use to authenticate.
+ * @param publickey The public key of the credential.
+ * @param privatekey The private key of the credential.
+ * @param passphrase The passphrase of the credential.
+ * @return 0 for success or an error code for failure
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(int) git_cred_ssh_key_memory_new(
+	git_cred **out,
+	const char *username,
+	const char *publickey,
+	const char *privatekey,
+	const char *passphrase);
+
+/*
+ * If the user hasn't included libssh2.h before git2.h, we need to
+ * define a few types for the callback signatures.
+ */
+#ifndef LIBSSH2_VERSION
+typedef struct _LIBSSH2_SESSION LIBSSH2_SESSION;
+typedef struct _LIBSSH2_USERAUTH_KBDINT_PROMPT LIBSSH2_USERAUTH_KBDINT_PROMPT;
+typedef struct _LIBSSH2_USERAUTH_KBDINT_RESPONSE LIBSSH2_USERAUTH_KBDINT_RESPONSE;
+#endif
+
+typedef void GIT_CALLBACK(git_cred_ssh_interactive_cb)(
+	const char *name,
+	int name_len,
+	const char *instruction, int instruction_len,
+	int num_prompts, const LIBSSH2_USERAUTH_KBDINT_PROMPT *prompts,
+	LIBSSH2_USERAUTH_KBDINT_RESPONSE *responses,
+	void **abstract);
+
+
+/**
+ * Create a new ssh keyboard-interactive based credential object.
+ * The supplied credential parameter will be internally duplicated.
+ *
+ * @param username Username to use to authenticate.
+ * @param prompt_callback The callback method used for prompts.
+ * @param payload Additional data to pass to the callback.
+ * @return 0 for success or an error code for failure.
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(int) git_cred_ssh_interactive_new(
+	git_cred **out,
+	const char *username,
+	git_cred_ssh_interactive_cb prompt_callback,
+	void *payload);
+
+/**
+ * Create a new ssh key credential object used for querying an ssh-agent.
+ * The supplied credential parameter will be internally duplicated.
+ *
+ * @param out The newly created credential object.
+ * @param username username to use to authenticate
+ * @return 0 for success or an error code for failure
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(int) git_cred_ssh_key_from_agent(
+	git_cred **out,
+	const char *username);
+
+typedef int GIT_CALLBACK(git_cred_sign_cb)(
+	LIBSSH2_SESSION *session,
+	unsigned char **sig, size_t *sig_len,
+	const unsigned char *data, size_t data_len,
+	void **abstract);
+
+/**
+ * Create an ssh key credential with a custom signing function.
+ *
+ * This lets you use your own function to sign the challenge.
+ *
+ * This function and its credential type is provided for completeness
+ * and wraps `libssh2_userauth_publickey()`, which is undocumented.
+ *
+ * The supplied credential parameter will be internally duplicated.
+ *
+ * @param out The newly created credential object.
+ * @param username username to use to authenticate
+ * @param publickey The bytes of the public key.
+ * @param publickey_len The length of the public key in bytes.
+ * @param sign_callback The callback method to sign the data during the challenge.
+ * @param payload Additional data to pass to the callback.
+ * @return 0 for success or an error code for failure
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(int) git_cred_ssh_custom_new(
+	git_cred **out,
+	const char *username,
+	const char *publickey,
+	size_t publickey_len,
+	git_cred_sign_cb sign_callback,
+	void *payload);
+
+/** @} */
+GIT_END_DECL
+#endif
diff --git a/include/git2/proxy.h b/include/git2/proxy.h
index 8fdcaa3..0b3b1fa 100644
--- a/include/git2/proxy.h
+++ b/include/git2/proxy.h
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #define INCLUDE_git_proxy_h__
 
 #include "common.h"
-#include "transport.h"
+#include "cred.h"
 
 GIT_BEGIN_DECL
 
diff --git a/include/git2/sys/cred.h b/include/git2/sys/cred.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7636e79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/git2/sys/cred.h
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) the libgit2 contributors. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This file is part of libgit2, distributed under the GNU GPL v2 with
+ * a Linking Exception. For full terms see the included COPYING file.
+ */
+#ifndef INCLUDE_sys_git_cred_h__
+#define INCLUDE_sys_git_cred_h__
+
+#include "git2/common.h"
+#include "git2/cred.h"
+
+/**
+ * @file git2/sys/cred.h
+ * @brief Git credentials low-level implementation
+ * @defgroup git_cred Git credentials low-level implementation
+ * @ingroup Git
+ * @{
+ */
+GIT_BEGIN_DECL
+
+/**
+ * The base structure for all credential types
+ */
+struct git_cred {
+	git_credtype_t credtype; /**< A type of credential */
+
+	/** The deallocator for this type of credentials */
+	void GIT_CALLBACK(free)(git_cred *cred);
+};
+
+/** A plaintext username and password */
+struct git_cred_userpass_plaintext {
+	git_cred parent; /**< The parent cred */
+	char *username; /**< The username to authenticate as */
+	char *password; /**< The password to use */
+};
+
+/** Username-only credential information */
+struct git_cred_username {
+	git_cred parent; /**< The parent cred */
+	char username[1]; /**< The username to authenticate as */
+};
+
+/**
+ * A ssh key from disk
+ */
+struct git_cred_ssh_key {
+	git_cred parent; /**< The parent cred */
+	char *username; /**< The username to authenticate as */
+	char *publickey; /**< The path to a public key */
+	char *privatekey; /**< The path to a private key */
+	char *passphrase; /**< Passphrase used to decrypt the private key */
+};
+
+/**
+ * Keyboard-interactive based ssh authentication
+ */
+struct git_cred_ssh_interactive {
+	git_cred parent; /**< The parent cred */
+	char *username; /**< The username to authenticate as */
+
+	/**
+	 * Callback used for authentication.
+	 */
+	git_cred_ssh_interactive_cb prompt_callback;
+
+	void *payload; /**< Payload passed to prompt_callback */
+};
+
+/**
+ * A key with a custom signature function
+ */
+struct git_cred_ssh_custom {
+	git_cred parent; /**< The parent cred */
+	char *username; /**< The username to authenticate as */
+	char *publickey; /**< The public key data */
+	size_t publickey_len; /**< Length of the public key */
+
+	/**
+	 * Callback used to sign the data.
+	 */
+	git_cred_sign_cb sign_callback;
+
+	void *payload; /**< Payload passed to prompt_callback */
+};
+
+GIT_END_DECL
+
+#endif
diff --git a/include/git2/transport.h b/include/git2/transport.h
index ab45a3a..5b42634 100644
--- a/include/git2/transport.h
+++ b/include/git2/transport.h
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include "indexer.h"
 #include "net.h"
 #include "types.h"
+#include "cred.h"
 
 /**
  * @file git2/transport.h
@@ -75,311 +76,7 @@ typedef struct {
 	size_t len;
 } git_cert_x509;
 
-/*
- *** Begin interface for credentials acquisition ***
- */
-
-/**
- * Supported credential types
- *
- * This represents the various types of authentication methods supported by
- * the library.
- */
-typedef enum {
-	/**
-	 * A vanilla user/password request
-	 * @see git_cred_userpass_plaintext_new
-	 */
-	GIT_CREDTYPE_USERPASS_PLAINTEXT = (1u << 0),
-
-	/**
-	 * An SSH key-based authentication request
-	 * @see git_cred_ssh_key_new
-	 */
-	GIT_CREDTYPE_SSH_KEY = (1u << 1),
-
-	/**
-	 * An SSH key-based authentication request, with a custom signature
-	 * @see git_cred_ssh_custom_new
-	 */
-	GIT_CREDTYPE_SSH_CUSTOM = (1u << 2),
-
-	/**
-	 * An NTLM/Negotiate-based authentication request.
-	 * @see git_cred_default
-	 */
-	GIT_CREDTYPE_DEFAULT = (1u << 3),
-
-	/**
-	 * An SSH interactive authentication request
-	 * @see git_cred_ssh_interactive_new
-	 */
-	GIT_CREDTYPE_SSH_INTERACTIVE = (1u << 4),
-
-	/**
-	 * Username-only authentication request
-	 *
-	 * Used as a pre-authentication step if the underlying transport
-	 * (eg. SSH, with no username in its URL) does not know which username
-	 * to use.
-	 *
-	 * @see git_cred_username_new
-	 */
-	GIT_CREDTYPE_USERNAME = (1u << 5),
-
-	/**
-	 * An SSH key-based authentication request
-	 *
-	 * Allows credentials to be read from memory instead of files.
-	 * Note that because of differences in crypto backend support, it might
-	 * not be functional.
-	 *
-	 * @see git_cred_ssh_key_memory_new
-	 */
-	GIT_CREDTYPE_SSH_MEMORY = (1u << 6),
-} git_credtype_t;
-
-typedef struct git_cred git_cred;
-
-/**
- * The base structure for all credential types
- */
-struct git_cred {
-	git_credtype_t credtype; /**< A type of credential */
-
-	/** The deallocator for this type of credentials */
-	void GIT_CALLBACK(free)(git_cred *cred);
-};
-
-/** A plaintext username and password */
-typedef struct {
-	git_cred parent; /**< The parent cred */
-	char *username; /**< The username to authenticate as */
-	char *password; /**< The password to use */
-} git_cred_userpass_plaintext;
-
-
-/*
- * If the user hasn't included libssh2.h before git2.h, we need to
- * define a few types for the callback signatures.
- */
-#ifndef LIBSSH2_VERSION
-typedef struct _LIBSSH2_SESSION LIBSSH2_SESSION;
-typedef struct _LIBSSH2_USERAUTH_KBDINT_PROMPT LIBSSH2_USERAUTH_KBDINT_PROMPT;
-typedef struct _LIBSSH2_USERAUTH_KBDINT_RESPONSE LIBSSH2_USERAUTH_KBDINT_RESPONSE;
-#endif
-
-typedef int GIT_CALLBACK(git_cred_sign_cb)(LIBSSH2_SESSION *session, unsigned char **sig, size_t *sig_len, const unsigned char *data, size_t data_len, void **abstract);
-typedef void GIT_CALLBACK(git_cred_ssh_interactive_cb)(const char* name, int name_len, const char* instruction, int instruction_len, int num_prompts, const LIBSSH2_USERAUTH_KBDINT_PROMPT* prompts, LIBSSH2_USERAUTH_KBDINT_RESPONSE* responses, void **abstract);
-
-/**
- * A ssh key from disk
- */
-typedef struct git_cred_ssh_key {
-	git_cred parent; /**< The parent cred */
-	char *username; /**< The username to authenticate as */
-	char *publickey; /**< The path to a public key */
-	char *privatekey; /**< The path to a private key */
-	char *passphrase; /**< Passphrase used to decrypt the private key */
-} git_cred_ssh_key;
-
-/**
- * Keyboard-interactive based ssh authentication
- */
-typedef struct git_cred_ssh_interactive {
-	git_cred parent; /**< The parent cred */
-	char *username; /**< The username to authenticate as */
-
-	/**
-	 * Callback used for authentication.
-	 */
-	git_cred_ssh_interactive_cb prompt_callback;
-
-	void *payload; /**< Payload passed to prompt_callback */
-} git_cred_ssh_interactive;
-
-/**
- * A key with a custom signature function
- */
-typedef struct git_cred_ssh_custom {
-	git_cred parent; /**< The parent cred */
-	char *username; /**< The username to authenticate as */
-	char *publickey; /**< The public key data */
-	size_t publickey_len; /**< Length of the public key */
-
-	/**
-	 * Callback used to sign the data.
-	 */
-	git_cred_sign_cb sign_callback;
-
-	void *payload; /**< Payload passed to prompt_callback */
-} git_cred_ssh_custom;
-
-/** A key for NTLM/Kerberos "default" credentials */
-typedef struct git_cred git_cred_default;
-
-/** Username-only credential information */
-typedef struct git_cred_username {
-	git_cred parent; /**< The parent cred */
-	char username[1]; /**< The username to authenticate as */
-} git_cred_username;
-
-/**
- * Check whether a credential object contains username information.
- *
- * @param cred object to check
- * @return 1 if the credential object has non-NULL username, 0 otherwise
- */
-GIT_EXTERN(int) git_cred_has_username(git_cred *cred);
-
-/**
- * Create a new plain-text username and password credential object.
- * The supplied credential parameter will be internally duplicated.
- *
- * @param out The newly created credential object.
- * @param username The username of the credential.
- * @param password The password of the credential.
- * @return 0 for success or an error code for failure
- */
-GIT_EXTERN(int) git_cred_userpass_plaintext_new(
-	git_cred **out,
-	const char *username,
-	const char *password);
-
-/**
- * Create a new passphrase-protected ssh key credential object.
- * The supplied credential parameter will be internally duplicated.
- *
- * @param out The newly created credential object.
- * @param username username to use to authenticate
- * @param publickey The path to the public key of the credential.
- * @param privatekey The path to the private key of the credential.
- * @param passphrase The passphrase of the credential.
- * @return 0 for success or an error code for failure
- */
-GIT_EXTERN(int) git_cred_ssh_key_new(
-	git_cred **out,
-	const char *username,
-	const char *publickey,
-	const char *privatekey,
-	const char *passphrase);
-
-/**
- * Create a new ssh keyboard-interactive based credential object.
- * The supplied credential parameter will be internally duplicated.
- *
- * @param username Username to use to authenticate.
- * @param prompt_callback The callback method used for prompts.
- * @param payload Additional data to pass to the callback.
- * @return 0 for success or an error code for failure.
- */
-GIT_EXTERN(int) git_cred_ssh_interactive_new(
-	git_cred **out,
-	const char *username,
-	git_cred_ssh_interactive_cb prompt_callback,
-	void *payload);
-
-/**
- * Create a new ssh key credential object used for querying an ssh-agent.
- * The supplied credential parameter will be internally duplicated.
- *
- * @param out The newly created credential object.
- * @param username username to use to authenticate
- * @return 0 for success or an error code for failure
- */
-GIT_EXTERN(int) git_cred_ssh_key_from_agent(
-	git_cred **out,
-	const char *username);
-
-/**
- * Create an ssh key credential with a custom signing function.
- *
- * This lets you use your own function to sign the challenge.
- *
- * This function and its credential type is provided for completeness
- * and wraps `libssh2_userauth_publickey()`, which is undocumented.
- *
- * The supplied credential parameter will be internally duplicated.
- *
- * @param out The newly created credential object.
- * @param username username to use to authenticate
- * @param publickey The bytes of the public key.
- * @param publickey_len The length of the public key in bytes.
- * @param sign_callback The callback method to sign the data during the challenge.
- * @param payload Additional data to pass to the callback.
- * @return 0 for success or an error code for failure
- */
-GIT_EXTERN(int) git_cred_ssh_custom_new(
-	git_cred **out,
-	const char *username,
-	const char *publickey,
-	size_t publickey_len,
-	git_cred_sign_cb sign_callback,
-	void *payload);
-
-/**
- * Create a "default" credential usable for Negotiate mechanisms like NTLM
- * or Kerberos authentication.
- *
- * @return 0 for success or an error code for failure
- */
-GIT_EXTERN(int) git_cred_default_new(git_cred **out);
-
-/**
- * Create a credential to specify a username.
- *
- * This is used with ssh authentication to query for the username if
- * none is specified in the url.
- */
-GIT_EXTERN(int) git_cred_username_new(git_cred **cred, const char *username);
-
-/**
- * Create a new ssh key credential object reading the keys from memory.
- *
- * @param out The newly created credential object.
- * @param username username to use to authenticate.
- * @param publickey The public key of the credential.
- * @param privatekey The private key of the credential.
- * @param passphrase The passphrase of the credential.
- * @return 0 for success or an error code for failure
- */
-GIT_EXTERN(int) git_cred_ssh_key_memory_new(
-	git_cred **out,
-	const char *username,
-	const char *publickey,
-	const char *privatekey,
-	const char *passphrase);
-
-
-/**
- * Free a credential.
- *
- * This is only necessary if you own the object; that is, if you are a
- * transport.
- *
- * @param cred the object to free
- */
-GIT_EXTERN(void) git_cred_free(git_cred *cred);
-
-/**
- * Signature of a function which acquires a credential object.
- *
- * @param cred The newly created credential object.
- * @param url The resource for which we are demanding a credential.
- * @param username_from_url The username that was embedded in a "user\@host"
- *                          remote url, or NULL if not included.
- * @param allowed_types A bitmask stating which cred types are OK to return.
- * @param payload The payload provided when specifying this callback.
- * @return 0 for success, < 0 to indicate an error, > 0 to indicate
- *       no credential was acquired
- */
-typedef int GIT_CALLBACK(git_cred_acquire_cb)(
-	git_cred **cred,
-	const char *url,
-	const char *username_from_url,
-	unsigned int allowed_types,
-	void *payload);
-
 /** @} */
 GIT_END_DECL
+
 #endif
diff --git a/src/transports/auth.c b/src/transports/auth.c
index 4fcf73c..1912737 100644
--- a/src/transports/auth.c
+++ b/src/transports/auth.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 
 #include "git2.h"
 #include "buffer.h"
+#include "git2/sys/cred.h"
 
 static int basic_next_token(
 	git_buf *out,
diff --git a/src/transports/auth_ntlm.c b/src/transports/auth_ntlm.c
index eff09bd..240c9ed 100644
--- a/src/transports/auth_ntlm.c
+++ b/src/transports/auth_ntlm.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include "buffer.h"
 #include "auth.h"
 #include "auth_ntlm.h"
+#include "git2/sys/cred.h"
 
 #ifdef GIT_NTLM
 
diff --git a/src/transports/cred.c b/src/transports/cred.c
index 621cae0..80c4d36 100644
--- a/src/transports/cred.c
+++ b/src/transports/cred.c
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@
  * a Linking Exception. For full terms see the included COPYING file.
  */
 
-#include "cred.h"
+#include "common.h"
 
-#include "git2.h"
-#include "smart.h"
+#include "git2/cred.h"
+#include "git2/sys/cred.h"
 #include "git2/cred_helpers.h"
 
 static int git_cred_ssh_key_type_new(
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ int git_cred_has_username(git_cred *cred)
 	return 1;
 }
 
-const char *git_cred__username(git_cred *cred)
+const char *git_cred_get_username(git_cred *cred)
 {
 	switch (cred->credtype) {
 	case GIT_CREDTYPE_USERNAME:
diff --git a/src/transports/cred.h b/src/transports/cred.h
deleted file mode 100644
index ed5821c..0000000
--- a/src/transports/cred.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright (C) the libgit2 contributors. All rights reserved.
- *
- * This file is part of libgit2, distributed under the GNU GPL v2 with
- * a Linking Exception. For full terms see the included COPYING file.
- */
-#ifndef INCLUDE_transports_cred_h__
-#define INCLUDE_transports_cred_h__
-
-#include "common.h"
-
-#include "git2/transport.h"
-
-const char *git_cred__username(git_cred *cred);
-
-#endif
diff --git a/src/transports/http.c b/src/transports/http.c
index 7845865..47094f7 100644
--- a/src/transports/http.c
+++ b/src/transports/http.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include "netops.h"
 #include "global.h"
 #include "remote.h"
+#include "git2/sys/cred.h"
 #include "smart.h"
 #include "auth.h"
 #include "http.h"
diff --git a/src/transports/ssh.c b/src/transports/ssh.c
index caa3a17..2159418 100644
--- a/src/transports/ssh.c
+++ b/src/transports/ssh.c
@@ -17,9 +17,11 @@
 #include "net.h"
 #include "netops.h"
 #include "smart.h"
-#include "cred.h"
 #include "streams/socket.h"
 
+#include "git2/cred.h"
+#include "git2/sys/cred.h"
+
 #ifdef GIT_SSH
 
 #define OWNING_SUBTRANSPORT(s) ((ssh_subtransport *)(s)->parent.subtransport)
@@ -629,7 +631,7 @@ post_extract:
 		if ((error = request_creds(&cred, t, urldata.username, auth_methods)) < 0)
 			goto done;
 
-		if (strcmp(urldata.username, git_cred__username(cred))) {
+		if (strcmp(urldata.username, git_cred_get_username(cred))) {
 			git_error_set(GIT_ERROR_SSH, "username does not match previous request");
 			error = -1;
 			goto done;
diff --git a/src/transports/winhttp.c b/src/transports/winhttp.c
index 3cab5d7..a7c0759 100644
--- a/src/transports/winhttp.c
+++ b/src/transports/winhttp.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include "repository.h"
 #include "global.h"
 #include "http.h"
+#include "git2/sys/cred.h"
 
 #include <wincrypt.h>
 #include <winhttp.h>
diff --git a/tests/network/cred.c b/tests/network/cred.c
index 6994cc0..d35e2b2 100644
--- a/tests/network/cred.c
+++ b/tests/network/cred.c
@@ -23,28 +23,24 @@ void test_network_cred__stock_userpass_validates_that_method_is_allowed(void)
 
 	cl_git_fail(git_cred_userpass(&cred, NULL, NULL, 0, &payload));
 	cl_git_pass(git_cred_userpass(&cred, NULL, NULL, GIT_CREDTYPE_USERPASS_PLAINTEXT, &payload));
-	cred->free(cred);
+	git_cred_free(cred);
 }
 
 void test_network_cred__stock_userpass_properly_handles_username_in_url(void)
 {
 	git_cred *cred;
-	git_cred_userpass_plaintext *plain;
 	git_cred_userpass_payload payload = {"alice", "password"};
 
 	cl_git_pass(git_cred_userpass(&cred, NULL, NULL, GIT_CREDTYPE_USERPASS_PLAINTEXT, &payload));
-	plain = (git_cred_userpass_plaintext*)cred;
-	cl_assert_equal_s(plain->username, "alice");
-	cred->free(cred);
+	cl_assert_equal_s("alice", git_cred_get_username(cred));
+	git_cred_free(cred);
 
 	cl_git_pass(git_cred_userpass(&cred, NULL, "bob", GIT_CREDTYPE_USERPASS_PLAINTEXT, &payload));
-	plain = (git_cred_userpass_plaintext*)cred;
-	cl_assert_equal_s(plain->username, "alice");
-	cred->free(cred);
+	cl_assert_equal_s("alice", git_cred_get_username(cred));
+	git_cred_free(cred);
 
 	payload.username = NULL;
 	cl_git_pass(git_cred_userpass(&cred, NULL, "bob", GIT_CREDTYPE_USERPASS_PLAINTEXT, &payload));
-	plain = (git_cred_userpass_plaintext*)cred;
-	cl_assert_equal_s(plain->username, "bob");
-	cred->free(cred);
+	cl_assert_equal_s("bob", git_cred_get_username(cred));
+	git_cred_free(cred);
 }