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Re: StandardInput Not Continuing Process

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 23, 2010, 17:20 UTC
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Certain things do want a real user sitting at the terminal (or GUI) even when the standard streams are connected elsewhere, and password input is one of the obvious things that would explicitly want to read from the tty.

Perhaps driving whatever script you are writing via "expect" would work?
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  1. Chase BrammerDec 8, 2010
  2. Chase BrammerDec 23, 2010
  3. Brian GernhardtDec 23, 2010
  4. Junio C HamanoDec 23, 2010
  5. Tay Ray ChuanDec 25, 2010

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