Re: [PATCH 2/5] make credential helpers builtins

> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 10:58:55AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> > There's no real reason for credential helpers to be separate binaries. I
> > did them this way originally under the notion that helper don't _need_
> > to be part of Git, and so can be built totally separately (and indeed,
> > the ones in contrib/credential are). But the ones in our main Makefile
> > build on libgit.a, and the resulting binaries are reasonably large.
> 
> Could you clarify which helpers you mean here? Git's own
> credential-cache and store make sense to convert, but the helpers in
> contrib definitely don't.
> 
> For what it's worth, I'm almost positive that you mean the in-tree
> helpers (where in-tree means "in git.git but not in contrib"), in which
> case I'm in favor of this direcftion.