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Disabling credential helper?

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brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date
Dec 3, 2014, 00:03 UTC
Message-ID
<20141203000310.GE90134@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net>

At $DAYJOB, we have a Git server[0] that supports the smart HTTP protocol. That server can return a 401 if the repository is private or doesn't exist.

We have several scripts, some of which run interactively, some not, that we simply want to fail if git fetch gets a non-2xx code. Unfortunately, git is very insistent about trying to use the default credential helper to prompt for a username and password in this case, even opening /dev/tty.

We've used GIT_ASKPASS=/bin/echo, which seems to solve the problem, although it's ugly and I'm concerned it might break in the future. Is there a better way to do this? I didn't see one in the documentation or code when I looked.

[0] An Atlassian Stash instance.
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Message 1 of 17 in “Disabling credential helper?”
  1. brian m. carlsonDec 3, 2014
  2. Jonathan NiederDec 3, 2014
  3. Jeff KingDec 3, 2014
  4. Jonathan NiederDec 3, 2014
  5. Jeff KingDec 3, 2014
  6. Jeff KingDec 4, 2014
  7. Junio C HamanoDec 4, 2014
  8. Junio C HamanoDec 3, 2014
  9. brian m. carlsonDec 4, 2014
  10. 0/2 disabling terminal promptsJeff King, Dec 4, 2014
  11. 1/2 credential: let helpers tell us to quitJeff King, Dec 4, 2014
  12. 2/2 prompt: respect GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT to disable terminal promptsJeff King, Dec 4, 2014
  13. Junio C HamanoDec 4, 2014
  14. Jeff KingDec 4, 2014
  15. Junio C HamanoDec 4, 2014
  16. Jeff KingDec 5, 2014
  17. Junio C HamanoDec 5, 2014

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