[PATCH 2/2] gitcredentials(7): make shell-snippet example more realistic
- From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
- Date
- May 1, 2020, 06:23 UTC
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- <20200501062316.GB25603@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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- <20200501061917.GC23665@coredump.intra.peff.net>
There's an example of using your own bit of shell to act as a credential helper, but it's not very realistic:
- It's stupid to hand out your secret password to _every_ host. In the real world you'd use the config-matcher to limit it to a particular host.
- We never provided a username. We can easily do that in another config option (you can do it in the helper, too, but this is much more readable).
- We were sending the secret even for store/erase operations. This is OK because Git would just ignore it, but a real system would probably be unlocking a password store, which you wouldn't want to do more than necessary.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> --- This is in fact very close to what's in my own ~/.gitconfig, except that I swap out "cat" for the "pass" tool.
Documentation/gitcredentials.txt | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt index 8a20343dd7..63b20fc6a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt @@ -233,8 +233,9 @@ helper = "foo --bar='whitespace arg'" helper = "/path/to/my/helper --with-arguments" # or you can specify your own shell snippet -[credential] -helper = "!f() { echo password=$(cat $HOME/.secret); }; f" +[credential "https://example.com"] +username = your_user +helper = "!f() { test $1 = get && echo password=$(cat $HOME/.secret); }; f" ---------------------------------------------------- Generally speaking, rule (3) above is the simplest for users to specify.
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