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Re: Disabling credential helper?

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 3, 2014, 00:59 UTC
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<20141203005953.GB6527@google.com>
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<20141203000310.GE90134@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net>

(+peff) Hi,

brian m. carlson wrote:
> 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?

That's a good question. Before falling back to the askpass based prompt, Git tries each credential helper matching the URL in turn, and there doesn't seem to be an option to override that behavior and disable credential helpers.

As long as you have no credential helpers configured, your GIT_ASKPASS based approach should work fine.

But once you have helpers configured, you're potentially in trouble. I'm wondering if we ought to provide an --no-credential-helpers option to help with this. (Or to go further and provide a way to unset configuration items --- e.g., '-c "credential.*=unset"'.)

Thoughts? Jonathan

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  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
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