From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 16:59:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Fwd: git clone does not respect command line options
Message-ID: <xmqqegbzl86d.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160226073444.GA26340@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> That's behaving as expected. Unfortunately, you cannot currently do what
> you want easily; there is no way to "unset" a multi-valued config
> variable (like credential.helper) with a later one. Git will ask both
> configured helpers for the password, and will store a successful result
> in both.
>
> The simplest way I can think of to work around it is to point your $HOME
> elsewhere[1] during the integration test, so that it does not read your
> regular ~/gitconfig.

Yup, that was the reaction I initially had.  I saw your "setting
helper to an empty string does not mean anything sensible, so let's
use it as a signal to clear the list" patch and I think that is a
reasonable workaround.

Thanks.