From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:35:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-svn, perl/Git.pm: extend and use Git->prompt method for querying users
Message-ID: <7v4nut59hw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120214222055.GE24802@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>   export SSH_ASKPASS=whatever
>
>   # this will try the terminal first, then SSH_ASKPASS, because it is
>   # ssh doing the asking
>   git push ssh://example.com/repo.git

Sorry, you lost me here.  Does "ssh example.com" consult the terminal
first and then fall back to SSH_ASKPASS environment variable?

I was under the impression that SSH_ASKPASS was to either give hands-free
access to the keychain or give GUI experience so that people do not have
to type from their terminals...

>   # this will try SSH_ASKPASS first, then the terminal, because git is
>   # doing the asking
>   git push https://example.com/repo.git
>
> So now I'm more convinced than ever that the order should be
> GIT_ASKPASS, terminal, SSH_ASKPASS.