From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:58:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] refactor git_getpass into generic prompt function
Message-ID: <7vzkf1b8mp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111208083133.GD26409@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>  2. The first series had a special "name" parameter just for generating
>     error messages. This drops it in the name of simplicity, so error
>     messages have gone from (assuming you don't have a tty):
>
>       Could not read password: No such device or address
>
>     to:
>
>       Could not read 'Username for 'https://example.com': ': No such
>       device or address
>
>     which is verbose, yes, but contains a little more useful
>     information. The formatting is rather unfortunate,...

It also would be unpleasant to i18n it, I suspect. 

> +	r = getpass(prompt);
> +	if (!r)
> +		die_errno("could not read '%s'", prompt);

Taking advantage of the "prompt-string"-ness of the message, this might be
a cuter workaround:

    fatal: Password: <<could not be read>>

But I do not think it matters that much. Let's queue what you have, and
work out these details in-tree.