Re: Disabling credential helper?
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Dec 3, 2014, 17:14 UTC
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- <20141203012148.GB29427@peff.net>
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> Yeah, it's fine (as is GIT_ASKPASS=true). You could also provide a > credential helper that gives you an empty username and password. But in > both cases, I think that git will then feed the empty password to the > server again, resulting in an extra useless round-trip. > ... > You probably > instead want to say "stop now, git, there is nothing else to be done". > ... > We could teach the credential-helper code to do that (e.g., a helper > returns "stop=true" and we respect that). But I think you can do it > reasonably well today by making the input process fail.
Yeah, it is roughly equivalent to the 'ASKPASS=true' approach, and probably is a good enough solution, I would think.