From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 20:48:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [Wishlist] could git tell which password it is asking when asking a password.
Message-ID: <20110701204823.GB32731@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vfwmpoi9y.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 01:30:49PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Rémi Vanicat <vanicat@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > I also believe that having the host name would be useful, both for human
> > (another example would be git remote update when there are several
> > remote) and script.  
> 
> Patches welcome, but I have to warn you that the code may _not_ know the
> URL at that point in the callchain.

Yeah, you have to save it; the simplest time is when we parse the
username+password bits out of the URL during http_auth_init, and then
pass it through to git_getpass.

But see the patch series I just mentioned elsewhere in the thread. Right
now it still uses "Password:" for http authentication, but it would be a
one-liner to have it use "Password for 'user@example.com':".

-Peff