From: John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:32:25 GMT
Subject: Re: The imporantance of including http credential caching in 1.7.7
Message-ID: <CAEBDL5VtVZcmQnj2CH7XzZ0YV_X61gO69-dXriGiYsAqk=NLPg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87pqjaxbrm.fsf@lifelogs.com>

[Added back some of the CC's]

Ted: we don't usually cull the CC list on the git mailing list.

2011/9/9 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>:
[snip]
> MJG> ... and one for Git on Windows? It seems we're lacking both Win and OS X
> MJG> developers here.
>
> Windows doesn't have a standard keychain service, does it?

No, it doesn't, but you can use the wincrypt API which allows you to
at least encrypt the password from the user's login credentials.  In
particular, CryptProtectData() and CryptUnprotectData().  That way you
can at least have the password stored encrypted on disk.

-John