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Re: [PATCH] completion: remove credential helpers from porcelain commands

From
Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date
May 5, 2015, 14:28 UTC
Message-ID
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On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 3:19 PM, SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> wrote:
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> Don't offer the "main" 'git credential' command or any of the credential
> helpers from contrib/credential/ when completing git commands.
>
> Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
> ---
>
> I was tempted to simply filter out 'credential-*', so we don't have to
> update this list when new credential helpers arrive.  However, the
> 'git-credential-*' "namespace" is not explicitly reserved for credential
> helpers, users have to set the 'credential.helper' config variable to tell
> explicitly that 'git-credential-foo' should be used as credential helper,
> and who knows, someone might have his own 'git-credential-bar' command that
> does something completely unrelated to git's credential system, so in the
> end decided against it.  And credential helpers don't pop up too frequently
> anyway.
>
> However, if you think filtering out 'credential-*' is the way to go, I'm
> happy to reroll.
>
>  contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> index e0eb6ae..527bb00 100644
> --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> @@ -665,8 +665,13 @@ __git_list_porcelain_commands ()
>                 checkout-index)   : plumbing;;
>                 commit-tree)      : plumbing;;
>                 count-objects)    : infrequent;;
> +               credential        : credentials;;
>                 credential-cache) : credentials helper;;
> +               credential-gnome-keyring) : credentials helpe;;
Typo? Should be "helper;;", no?
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  1. completion: remove credential helpers from porcelain commandsSZEDER Gábor, May 5, 2015
  2. Erik Faye-LundMay 5, 2015
  3. Jeff KingMay 5, 2015
  4. Junio C HamanoMay 5, 2015
  5. SZEDER GáborMay 6, 2015

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