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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add a new option 'core.askpass'.

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 27, 2010, 17:28 UTC
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Knut Franke <k.franke@science-computing.de> writes:
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> From: Anselm Kruis <a.kruis@science-computing.de>
>
> Setting this option has the same effect as setting the environment variable
> 'GIT_ASKPASS'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Knut Franke <k.franke@science-computing.de>
> ---
> This is useful if you have a wrapper script around git-clone doing some site-
> specific customizations, but want users to be able to use plain git commands 
> for other operations.

I don't see ASKPASS documented anywhere in the Documentation/ in the first place. Perhaps we would want to fix that while we are at it. Also this does not feel like a "core." thing, but it may be just me.

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