From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 17:18:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] compat: add a getpass() compatibility function
Message-ID: <7vtycp2sva.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikRCXLJfOJFZ7j0TV_rxsySgQwSsw@mail.gmail.com>

Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> writes:

> Actually, I'm thinking that we should avoid ever using getpass:

Good thinking.

> Instead,
> we should make our own function (based on your most recent patch?)
> that fills a caller-specified strbuf instead (git_getpass already have
> a static strbuf that we can fill).

Heh, I thought you earlier felt "a bit pointless" to "a properly
abstracted common version" I outlined earlier in the thread ;-)