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Re: [PATCH v2] contrib: add win32 credential-helper

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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 23, 2012, 16:05 UTC
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On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 08:45:22PM +0200, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
>
>> Here's an updated version of my Windows credential-helper.
>
> Sorry, I've been traveling and haven't had a chance to look at this
> in-depth yet. I'll do so next week. In the meantime, I wanted to point
> out this similar project:
>
>  https://github.com/anurse/git-credential-winstore
>
> which somebody else pointed me to a few days ago. I don't know yet if
> your approaches are the same, or if it would be worth combining efforts
> or not.
Yeah, I saw that one a couple of days ago myself.

They use the same credential store, and I actually tried to make sure they can use the same data.

But apart from that, they work quite differently. My credential-helper only does storage, and passes the test-suite. The one you linked to seems to ignore any password being sent to it, and instead prompts the user if it doesn't already have a credential. It also does not seem to support storing credentials for multiple users for a domain/path.

But probably the biggest problem for Git for Windows is that it's written in C#, and we don't have a C# compiler in our tool-chain.

So I don't think there's much I can use from that helper, and I think my helper is in a healthier state. But I'm obviously biased.

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