Re: [PATCH 0/3] maintenance: configure credentials to be silent

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 20, 2024, 21:56 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqfrpudm51.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <pull.1798.git.1726790423.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> Add a new configuration value, 'credential.interactive', to specify to the
> credential helper that it should not prompt for user interaction. This
> option has been respected by Git Credential Manager since 2020 [1], so this
> is now presenting it as an official Git config value.

So, the other helpers are also supposed to check for the variable and fail when it has to go interactive now.

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> These changes were first merged into the microsoft/git fork in August 2023
> [2] but were not upstreamed immediately. The change has been a positive one
> for users of that fork, as they no longer get pop-ups and they also are not
> getting maintenance.lock file blocks when the prefetch task waits for
> credentials. This has become even more important recently as credential
> lifetimes have been restricted significantly, leading to a higher likelihood
> that this will happen during a background prefetch.

Sounds good.