From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:13:24 GMT
Subject: Re: Push from an SSH Terminal
Message-ID: <20120203221324.GA8048@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20120203213654.GD1890@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 04:36:54PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

> > Check to see if the GIT_ASKPASS and/or SSH_ASKPASS environment variables
> > are set, and if the core.askpass config variable is set.  If any of these
> > are set, unset them.  Git should fall back to a simple password prompt.
> 
> Hmm, yeah that is likely the problem. I was thinking git would fall back
> to asking on the terminal, but it does not. We probably should.

We should probably do this:

  [1/2]: prompt: clean up strbuf usage
  [2/2]: prompt: fall back to terminal if askpass fails

-Peff