From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 08:56:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] echo usernames as they are typed
Message-ID: <7v4nxqvt7r.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111127082744.GA32068@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 05:58:01AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> Here's a revised version of the http-auth / credential-helper series.
>
> And here's something I've been meaning to do on top: actually echo
> characters at the username prompt. We can't do this portably, but we can
> at least stub out a compatibility layer and let each system do something
> sensible.

Yay ;-)