Re: [PATCH] git-send-email: add ~/.authinfo parsing

From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Date: Feb 4, 2013, 17:00 UTC
Message-ID: <878v74vwst.fsf@lifelogs.com>
In-Reply-To: <xa1tmwvk9gy1.fsf@mina86.com>

On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:33:58 +0100 Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> wrote:

MN> As far as I understand, there could be a git-credential helper that MN> reads ~/.authinfo and than git-send-email would just call “git MN> credential fill”, right?

MN> I've noticed though, that git-credential does not support port argument, MN> which makes it slightly incompatible with ~/.authinfo.

My proposed netrc credential helper does this :)

The token mapping I use:

port, protocol => protocol machine, host => host path => path login, username, user => username password => password

I think that's sensible.

Ted

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