Re: git submodule should honor "-c credential.helper" command line argument

From: Marc Strapetz <marc.strapetz@syntevo.com>
Date: Feb 3, 2016, 08:08 UTC
Message-ID: <56B1B569.5040502@syntevo.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xq8sv6f8K8K0EEjXg=wdKpFg6z0K5F6P4SGEp+wKdU=rA@mail.gmail.com>

On 03.02.2016 08:35, Jacob Keller wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 8:25 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> I think the problem is that when git "switches" to working in the
>> submodule repository, it clears the environment, which includes any "-c"
>> command switches. This makes sense for some situations, but not for
>> others. This thread shows a similar problem:
>>
>>    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/264840
>>
>> Jens suggested there adding an option to tell clone to pass specific
>> variables to the submodule, which I think makes sense. AFAIK, nobody has
>> done any work yet on that approach.
>>
>
> This is something that I am also interested in, haven't had a chance
> to look at it just yet though. I may have some time soon to take a
> stab at this.

To have this issue addressed would be great. It's currently preventing me to switch our authentication-related code to credential helpers.

Jake, I'm happy to help, if I can (I don't have any experience with Git code though, except of browsing it a couple of times ... so patches from my side would need a lot of review I guess :). Just let me know.

-Marc