From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:00:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: clarify that credential discards unrecognised attributes
Message-ID: <Y1cnE5cyN1NBdmCv@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <Y1cm2a3qy9aowwNh@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 07:59:22PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> We did discuss patches a long time ago that would let Git carry
> arbitrary keys between helpers, even if Git itself didn't understand it.
> One of the intended uses was to let helpers talk to each other about
> TTLs. So if you had say:
> 
>   [credential]
>   helper = generate-some-token
>   helper = cache
> 
> where the first helper generates a token, and the second caches it, the
> first one could shove a "ttl" or "expiration" key into the protocol,
> which the cache could then learn to respect.

In case anyone is morbidly curious, it was in this thread:

  https://lore.kernel.org/git/20120407033417.GA13914@sigill.intra.peff.net/

-Peff