From: Sven Strickroth <sven.strickroth@tu-clausthal.de>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:02:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-svn, perl/Git.pm: extend and use Git->prompt method for querying users
Message-ID: <4F37E2B0.9060007@tu-clausthal.de>
In-Reply-To: <20120103184022.GA20926@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

Am 03.01.2012 19:40 schrieb Jeff King:
> There is one difference between how git and ssh use the ASKPASS
> variable. In git, we try it _first_, and fall back to asking on the
> terminal.  For ssh, they first try the terminal, and fall back to
> askpass only when the terminal cannot be opened.

I checked out subversion (svn co
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk subversion) and
performed a "grep ASKPASS * -R": Only match in
"contrib\client-side\emacs\psvn.el". So I doubt if subversion really
supports SSH_ASKPASS.

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Best regards,
 Sven Strickroth