Re: git with https and client cert asks for password repeatedly

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 26, 2009, 10:17 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902261113340.6258@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <20090225214224.GB4573@raven.wolf.lan>

Hi,

[Josef, it is extremely annoying that you culled the Cc: list; I do not know if Mark will get this mail, and my time is too scarce to undo your mistake.]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Josef Wolf wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:11:40PM -0500, Mark Lodato wrote:
> 
> > Finally, is there interest in refactoring the http code to make it a 
> > little cleaner?  That is, make a wrapper library around curl so that 
> > you can just call GET or POST or whatever and not worry about how to 
> > invoke curl?
> 
> As I mentioned above, I figured that implementing the callback method in 
> curl-lib would probably be easier than understanding the usage of curl 
> within git.  So I'd say refactoring would be an improvement.  But I bet 
> the git gurus will flame me for saying that =:-S

To the contrary. I have been waiting for over one year for Mike Hommey to submit his refactoring patches.

A very quick list search would find you his patch series, I am sure.

Status quo: the series needs polishing, and we need http-fetch tests (if I saw it correctly, Peff started something like this).

Ciao, Dscho