Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

From: Frank Li <lznuaa@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 2, 2010, 04:30 UTC
Message-ID: <1976ea661002012030h23aa415ek30aa6db23cb88d0e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <be6fef0d1002012015q2a10af1cq4c5e5f968039ee45@mail.gmail.com>

2010/2/2 Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>:

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> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Frank Li <lznuaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I prefer git-svn can provide environment to launch a external
>> application to input password like open ssh.
>
> how about users who are authenticating over http with basic and
> digest? How does one go about launching an external app for password
> input in those cases?

There are not problem if run git svn clone from console. But a gui application, such tortoisegit, launch "git svn clone" and capture git svn clone output. If passwd needed, git svn clone will read character from console but GUI application don't know that and wait git svn output. So there are dead lock till timeout and fail.

The same problem has been happen at ssh. But OpenSSH provide a option, environment SSH_ASKPASS, which point to a application. when passwd need, openssh launch this GUI application, user can input passwd at this GUI application.

The basic requirement is git svn can provide a way to prompt a dialog box to input passwd.

Frank Li