From: Frans Klaver <fransklaver@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:49:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] echo usernames as they are typed
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In-Reply-To: <20111128113127.GA23408@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

> Certainly on non-Windows something like that would not be welcome. The
> user can already have specified GIT_ASKPASS if they don't have a
> terminal. And once the credential-helper code is in, they can use a
> platform-specific helper that provides a nice dialog if they want it.
>
> So I would say trying to do something graphical would be surprising and
> unwelcome. But then, I am a very Unix-y kind of guy. Maybe on Windows
> something like that would be more favorable. I'll leave that decision to
> people who know more.

I would say that also on windows it would be surprising if you are
working on the command line and suddenly a pop-up appears asking for
input. So even on windows you should probably keep away from gui stuff
in a cli tool, although there are tools that don't.

Frans