From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:51:15 GMT
Subject: Re: Launch separate program for HTTPS prompt
Message-ID: <CABPQNSYav4K208a1VVP6rK6LhXBo+nkx-DcG4zUsiufnCJkY5g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpq6261nt0x.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr>

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> 乙酸鋰 <ch3cooli@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Could you launch a separate program for HTTPS prompt like SSH_ASKPASS?
>> This allows GUI programs to answer the trust or not, not via stdin.
>
> Read about credential helpers, this is what they are meant for, and they
> do launch separate programs.
>

The prompting-support for credential helpers didn't survive the
inclusion; instead we have git_prompt() that consults GIT_ASKPASS and
SSH_ASKPASS or falls back to git_terminal_prompt().