Re: [PATCH 0/5] win32: support echo for terminal-prompt

> We currently only support getpass, which does not echo at all, for
> git_terminal_prompt on Windows. The Windows console is perfectly
> capable of doing this, so let's make it so.
>
> This implementation tries to reuse the /dev/tty-code as much as
> possible.
>
> The big reason that this becomes a bit hairy is that Ctrl+C needs
> to be handled correctly, so we don't leak the console state to a
> non-echoing setting when a user aborts.
>
> Windows makes this bit a little bit tricky, in that we need to
> implement SIGINT for fgetc. However, I suspect that this is a good
> thing to do in the first place.
>
> An earlier iteration was also breifly discussed here:
> http://mid.gmane.org/CABPQNSaUCEDU4+2N63n0k_XwSXOP_iFZG3GEYSPSBPcSVV8wRQ@mail.gmail.com
>
> The series can also be found here, only with an extra patch that
> makes the (interactive) testing a bit easier:
>
> https://github.com/kusma/git/tree/work/terminal-cleanup
>
> Erik Faye-Lund (5):
>   mingw: make fgetc raise SIGINT if apropriate
>   compat/terminal: factor out echo-disabling
>   compat/terminal: separate input and output handles
>   mingw: reuse tty-version of git_terminal_prompt
>   mingw: get rid of getpass implementation
>
>  compat/mingw.c    |  91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  compat/mingw.h    |   8 +++-
>  compat/terminal.c | 129 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  3 files changed, 169 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
>
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