# Re: How to redirect git std input in Python?

1 messages from 2019-12-06 to 2019-12-06. Participants: Jeff King.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/52392

## Jeff King, 2019-12-06 02:40

Subject: Re: How to redirect git std input in Python?
Message-ID: <20191206024050.GA1223222@coredump.intra.peff.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20191206024050.GA1223222%40coredump.intra.peff.net
In-Reply-To: <f3b45643-6ca5-4f7f-aec2-8438d1451629.kan.wu@genetalks.com>

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On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 09:34:30AM +0800, 吴侃 wrote:

> To: gitster <gitster@pobox.com>, peff <peff@peff.net>

Please send questions to the public mailing list at git@vger.kernel.org.
Then more people will see your question, and everyone will benefit from
seeing the answer.

> I want to develop a git plugin in a Python IDE.when i clone a private
> git project,it needs to input username and passward in terminal.
> [...]
> so i want to redirect the username or password input to a dialog use
> Python in my plugin.

Look into either the GIT_ASKPASS environment variable described in "git
help git", or if you want something a little nicer, the credential
subsystem (described in https://git-scm.com/docs/gitcredentials, but
especially the "custom helpers" part at the end).

-Peff

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