From: Bryan Donlan Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:34:57 GMT Subject: Re: why multiple password prompts? Message-ID: <3e8340490803301334g2127451cu6e9dc71eefa6241c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > 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...