Re: [PATCH] git-send-email: add ~/.authinfo parsing

> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:53:19AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Either way it still encourages a plaintext password to be on disk,
>> which may not be what we want, even though it may be slight if not
>> really much of an improvement.  Again the Help-for-users has this
>> amusing bit:
>
> I do not mind a .netrc or .authinfo parser, because while those formats
> do have security problems, they are standard files that may already be
> in use. So as long as we are not encouraging their use, I do not see a
> problem in supporting them (and we already do the same with curl's netrc
> support).
>
> But it would probably make sense for send-email to support the existing
> git-credential subsystem, so that it can take advantage of secure
> system-specific storage. And that is where we should be pointing new
> users. I think contrib/mw-to-git even has credential support written in
> perl, so it would just need to be factored out to Git.pm.