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submodule update and core.askpass

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DNDmitry Neverov <dmitry.neverov@jetbrains.com>
Date
Nov 16, 2013, 21:24 UTC
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Hi,

it seems like "git submodule update" command doesn't respect the core.askpass option specified in a command line. I have a repository with a submodule, I serve it over http which requires an authorization and both main repository and submodule require the same credentials. I run the following commands (pass.sh is a script which prints a password to stdout):

git -c core.askpass=pass.sh clone main-repo cd main-repo git submodule init git submodule sync git -c core.askpass=pass.sh submodule update

The last command asks for a password interactively.

I've run bisect, it seems like it started failing from commit be8779f7ac9a3be9aa783df008d59082f4054f67. I've checked: submodule update works fine in 1.8.5.rc2 with removed call to clear_local_git_env.

Is there any way to make git submodule update respect core.askpass option, so one can use it in scripts?

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Dmitry Neverov
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