Re: Calling ssh from git-gui
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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
- Date
- Sep 3, 2008, 17:33 UTC
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- <20080903171543.GC28315@spearce.org>
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 10:15:43AM -0700, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> And that is why it doesn't handle (ii) or (iii) at the present time, > and unless I am given a nice patch series for any git-gui related > parts of this, why it will continue to remain that way for quite > some time.
My writeup was not actually intended as 'how we might do it' but 'how should *I* implement this'. ;-) I _do_ plan for a nice patch series. For now I'm defaulting on the SSH_ASKPASS approach.
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> Damn annoying for git-gui to be invoking a new terminal window, but > maybe that's what we have to do. Be nice though if the window only > was opened because we couldn't do "git ls-remote url" but its hard > to tell "hanging because SSH needs the user" and "hanging because > the network is a 2400 baud modem".
Oh, indeed - that is something what I had in mind when starting to write this mail about a week ago, but forgot to mention now. It's the possibility of having console spawn a real tty (or do some more stuff to *emulate* a tty, but again, this might get hairy in TCL). However, this feels very... "untidy" compared to SSH_ASKPASS.
-- Petr "Pasky" Baudis The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC. -- Bill Gates