From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 17:37:22 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] prompt: respect GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT to disable terminal prompts Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20141205091049.GB32112@peff.net> Jeff King writes: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 01:33:53PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Of course, from _our_ point of view, that somebody is not us. We do >> not have direct control, certainly from this codepath. Belated typofix - s/from /not &/. > > Right, but in theory we can provoke gpg to do what we want when we spawn > it. However, having had zero luck in convincing it to stop asking me for > a passphrase recently in another thread, I do not know what magic > command line option is required. :( > > I think it would be OK to merge the git handling of GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT > (i.e., the patch I sent), and somebody who runs into the issue with gpg > and can figure out how to tame it can scratch their own itch later. I > hate leaving things half-implemented or inconsistent, but I also don't > know how to make gpg do what we want. And doing a partial solution > seems better to me than holding the credential.c half hostage. Oh, no question about that. You are making things better by advancing one step at a time. Queued and will be moving to 'next' shortly.