From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 09:31:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add way to make Git credentials accessible from clean/smudge filter
Message-ID: <20161111093122.osbdwmze5x5t742v@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <77603924-3552-4146-9C9E-A106CFA96D7A@gmail.com>

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 10:28:56AM +0100, Lars Schneider wrote:

> > Yeah, that is the solution I was going to suggest. The credentials are
> > totally orthogonal to the filters, and I would rather not shove them
> > into the protocol. It's an extra process, but with the new multi-use
> > smudge filter, it's one per git invocation, not one per file.
> 
> The trouble with "git credential" is that it works only if the credential 
> helper is setup correctly. Although I assume that most people have setup this, 
> I have also worked with a number of people who prefer to enter their passwords 
> every time Git makes a network connection.

Are you sure about that? If I do:

  echo url=https://example.com/repo.git |
  git credential fill

I get prompted for a username and password.

-Peff