Re: why multiple password prompts?
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
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> On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Paul wrote:
>
> > When I do a simple git-pull over SSH, why does it typically prompt me for my
> > SSH password two or three times? And no, I am not inputting it wrong.
>
> In some versions of git, it makes separate connections to find out what
> the remote's state is and to fetch the actual data. A third connection
> should only be needed if there are new tags to fetch, and that would be
> after some of the messages.
>
> One of the changes in the upcoming release is to reduce this to one,
> except for an occasional second one.
git.git's master branch seems to be hitting ssh twice fairly reliably...
[bd@shion git-test] SSH_AUTH_SOCK= ~/src/git/git-pull
bd@130.111.246.25's password:
bd@130.111.246.25's password:
remote: Counting objects: 5, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2/2)remote: , done.
remote: Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), done.
From ssh+git://bd@130.111.246.25/home/bd/git-test
b0b8450..57a92a7 master -> origin/master
Updating b0b8450..57a92a7
Fast forward
fob | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
[bd@shion git-test] ~/src/git/git --version
git version 1.5.5.rc2
The remote's still on 1.5.4.4 if it matters...