Re: [Wishlist] could git tell which password it is asking when asking a password.
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Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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- Jul 1, 2011, 17:18 UTC
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On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 10:16, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
> index b2ae8de..44948a7 100644
> --- a/http.c
> +++ b/http.c
> @@ -209,8 +209,11 @@ static void init_curl_http_auth(CURL *result)
> {
> if (user_name) {
> struct strbuf up = STRBUF_INIT;
> - if (!user_pass)
> - user_pass = xstrdup(git_getpass("Password: "));
> + if (!user_pass) {
> + strbuf_addf(&up, "Password for %s: ", user_name);The user_name by itself may not be sufficient. I may also need the URL to correctly answer the question. I don't always use the same password on every website. :-)
As a human sure, I know what URL I asked Git to poke for me. But if I want to write a script that looks this up in a password manager for me, that script needs the URL.
Food for thought.
-- Shawn.