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Re: netrc credential helper promotion out of contrib?

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Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Date
Sep 3, 2013, 15:12 UTC
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On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 12:28:39 -0700 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote: 
JCH> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> A while has passed since contrib/credential/netrc was added. Is it OK to
>> promote it to be part of the main installation?

JCH> I gave it a quick glance, and it seems to be cleanly written, except JCH> that "EOHIPPUS" (End-of-Hippus? Eohippus the extinct horse?) looked JCH> a bit too strange to my taste ;-). It does not seem to use features JCH> older versions of Perl some people are stuck with do not support.

Thanks, I was careful about that. `EOF' as the end-of-document marker is a bit boring, don't you think? Well, I can use it here if you insist, but it seems OK to me.

JCH> I do not mind seeing a patch that moves contrib/credential/netrc to JCH> credential/netrc and adjusts the top-level Makefile. The test JCH> script needs to be updated to fit the rest of t/ hierarchy better, JCH> though.

OK, I will work on that patch.  Thanks for the reply.
Ted
Previous: Junio C Hamano
Message 3 of 3 in “netrc credential helper promotion out of contrib?”
  1. Ted ZlatanovAug 18, 2013
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 20, 2013
  3. Ted ZlatanovSep 3, 2013

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