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[Wishlist] could git tell which password it is asking when asking a password.

From
Rémi Vanicat <vanicat@debian.org>
Date
Jul 1, 2011, 13:59 UTC
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<877h82nlua.dlv@debian.org>
Hello,

When git is asking for a password (for example for pushing over https) it call the $GIT_ASKPASS script with only "Password: " as a an argument, so when one have several remote, it might not know which one is asking the password.

It would be interesting also to plug some sort of password-safe unto git, or some "git-agent". 

-- 
Rémi Vanicat
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