Re: Questions, improvements

From: BARDOT Jérôme <bardot.jerome@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 20, 2021, 12:25 UTC
Message-ID: <9eafffc8-8576-f1ea-45a3-ae4c337db7f1@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <YW85Gs8aU9rrBDOv@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On 19/10/2021 23:31, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 07:38:16PM +0200, BARDOT Jérôme wrote:
>
>> 1)
>>
>> Why git not embed by default some gitinore rules (and can be "disable"
>> after).
>> All the time i have to add all operating system stuff, all editor stuff.
> I think you may have a hard time getting people to agree on what should
> go into those rules. ;)

Yes but for certain things i think we will are most of us agree. (In professional context)

Temp files for Operating System, file system, text editor and IDE.

It can be also a great way to improve interoperability (between tools) and identify/improve tools without personnal and team configuration.

Keep repositories clean and easily usable with an abstraction layer of tools used to do things (editor, OS, CI, etc) is what i want.

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> But you may find core.excludesFile (documented in "git help config")
> helpful. You can set up your personal set of files once, and they will
> be used in every repository.
>
>> 2)
>>
>> I need a domain name / uri / ip base way to choose auth information.
>> i find some examples in past but not as smart as what i want. (Maybe i
>> miss something)
>>
>> 3)
>>
>> For auth client side can we use tools like Pass and or identity manager.
> I'm not entirely sure I understand your questions here, but I think
> you're looking for credential helpers? Try "git help credentials" for an
> overview.

you understand well

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> There are helpers which interact with common OS secure storage systems
> (like osxkeychain, libsecret, etc). But you can also write your own
> little scripts, and restrict them based on URLs.
>
> So for instance I use this config to pull a GitHub PAT out of the "pass"
> tool:
>
>   [credential "https://github.com"]
>   username = peff
>   helper = "!f() { test $1 = get && echo password=`pass github/token`; }; f"

Look great i will test

> -Peff