Re: why multiple password prompts?

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Mar 29, 2008, 18:49 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0803291439450.19665@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90803291137l20244abcke54941dc92c2c8b4@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Martin Langhoff wrote:

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> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
> >  One of the changes in the upcoming release is to reduce this to one,
> >  except for an occasional second one.
> 
> That's cool - didn't know a rework of the ssh interactions had
> happened.

It's not actually anything to do with ssh; it's that the git native protocol code tries to do as much as possible in each of its connections.

> It would be really good if we could detect if there's an
> existing "master" connection and piggyback over that (see options -M
> and -O). Reading man ssh_config it looks like we may be able to say
> something along the lines of " -o ControlMaster=auto ".

People who want that will presumably set it in their ssh configuration.

	-Daniel
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