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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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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.

Previous: Junio C HamanoNext: brian m. carlson
Message 8 of 17 in “Disabling credential helper?”
  1. brian m. carlsonDec 3, 2014
  2. Jonathan NiederDec 3, 2014
  3. Jeff KingDec 3, 2014
  4. Jonathan NiederDec 3, 2014
  5. Jeff KingDec 3, 2014
  6. Jeff KingDec 4, 2014
  7. Junio C HamanoDec 4, 2014
  8. Junio C HamanoDec 3, 2014
  9. brian m. carlsonDec 4, 2014
  10. 0/2 disabling terminal promptsJeff King, Dec 4, 2014
  11. 1/2 credential: let helpers tell us to quitJeff King, Dec 4, 2014
  12. 2/2 prompt: respect GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT to disable terminal promptsJeff King, Dec 4, 2014
  13. Junio C HamanoDec 4, 2014
  14. Jeff KingDec 4, 2014
  15. Junio C HamanoDec 4, 2014
  16. Jeff KingDec 5, 2014
  17. Junio C HamanoDec 5, 2014

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