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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.8.rc0

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 3, 2011, 23:02 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> Normally I would say to implement in favor of the no-netrc case, as it
> is probably more common (and will hopefully be more so after the auth
> helpers are finished). But the problem is that the penalties are
> different. On the one hand, we have the extra http round-trip. Which is
> annoying, but mostly invisible to the user. But on the other, we have
> git prompting the user unnecessarily, which is just awful.

Ok, so are we in agreement that Stefan's patch $gmane/184617 is the right fix at least for the time being?

This will be a minor regression if left unfixed, so I'd like to have a minimum fix in before I tag -rc1 over the weekend.

Could any one of you guys please care to package it up with a readable commit log message with a sign-off?

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Message 14 of 26 in “[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.8.rc0”
  1. Junio C HamanoOct 31, 2011
  2. Stefan NäweOct 31, 2011
  3. Junio C HamanoOct 31, 2011
  4. Stefan NäweNov 1, 2011
  5. Junio C HamanoNov 1, 2011
  6. Jeff KingNov 1, 2011
  7. Stefan NaeweNov 1, 2011
  8. Stefan NaeweNov 1, 2011
  9. Michael J GruberNov 2, 2011
  10. Jeff KingNov 2, 2011
  11. Jeff KingNov 2, 2011
  12. Junio C HamanoNov 2, 2011
  13. Jeff KingNov 2, 2011
  14. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2011
  15. Stefan NaeweNov 1, 2011
  16. http-push: don't always prompt for password (Was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.8.rc0)Stefan Näwe, Nov 2, 2011
  17. Michael J GruberNov 2, 2011
  18. Junio C HamanoNov 2, 2011
  19. Jeff KingNov 2, 2011
  20. Junio C HamanoNov 2, 2011
  21. http-push: don't always prompt for passwordStefan Naewe, Nov 4, 2011
  22. Junio C HamanoNov 4, 2011
  23. Jeff KingNov 4, 2011
  24. Junio C HamanoNov 4, 2011
  25. Stefan NaeweNov 4, 2011
  26. Junio C HamanoNov 5, 2011

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