From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:28:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add a new option 'core.askpass'.
Message-ID: <7vaao8hsmx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <201008271251.19754.k.franke@science-computing.de>

Knut Franke <k.franke@science-computing.de> writes:

> 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.