Re: [PATCH] git-send-email: add ~/.authinfo parsing

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jan 31, 2013, 19:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20130131193844.GA14460@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <87pq0l5qbc.fsf@lifelogs.com>

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:23:51AM -0500, Ted Zlatanov wrote:

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> Jeff, is there a way for git-credential to currently support
> authinfo/netrc parsing?  I assume that's the right way, instead of using
> Michal's proposal to parse internally?
> 
> I'd like to add that, plus support for the 'string' and "string"
> formats, and authinfo.gpg decoding through GPG.  I'd write it in Perl,
> if there's a choice.

Yes, you could write a credential helper that understands netrc and friends; git talks to the helpers over a socket, so there is no problem with writing it in Perl. See Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt for an overview, or the sample implementation in credential-store.c for a simple example.

-Peff

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