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Re: why multiple password prompts?

From
Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date
Mar 29, 2008, 16:48 UTC
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<alpine.LNX.1.00.0803291241020.19665@iabervon.org>
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On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Paul wrote:
> When I do a simple git-pull over SSH, why does it typically prompt me for my
> SSH password two or three times? And no, I am not inputting it wrong.

In some versions of git, it makes separate connections to find out what the remote's state is and to fetch the actual data. A third connection should only be needed if there are new tags to fetch, and that would be after some of the messages.

One of the changes in the upcoming release is to reduce this to one, except for an occasional second one.

	-Daniel
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