From: Sven Strickroth <sven.strickroth@tu-clausthal.de>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:30:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] honour GIT_ASKPASS for querying username in git-svn
Message-ID: <4EC65DE4.90005@tu-clausthal.de>
In-Reply-To: <CABPQNSZ0iPAE+BnDU6Nz8_PkrAtPbjL4RoJuQS=Um2wxPt-2DQ@mail.gmail.com>

Am 18.11.2011 12:36 schrieb Erik Faye-Lund:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Sven Strickroth
> <sven.strickroth@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:
>> From 8e576705ca949c32ff22d3216006073ee70652eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Sven Strickroth <email@cs-ware.de>
>> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:43:25 +0100
>> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] honour GIT_ASKPASS for querying username
>>
>> git-svn reads usernames from an interactive terminal.
>> This behavior cause GUIs to hang waiting for git-svn to
>> complete (http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/issues/detail?id=967).
>>
>> Also see commit 56a853b62c0ae7ebaad0a7a0a704f5ef561eb795.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sven Strickroth <email@cs-ware.de>
> 
> IIUC, GIT_ASKPASS is intended for passwords and not usernames. Won't
> this cause console-users to not see their username prompted anymore?

git also asks for username using the GIT_ASKPASS tool (if GIT_ASKPASS is
set).

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