From: Marc Strapetz <marc.strapetz@syntevo.com>
To: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>,
Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git submodule should honor "-c credential.helper" command line argument
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 09:08:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56B1B569.5040502@syntevo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xq8sv6f8K8K0EEjXg=wdKpFg6z0K5F6P4SGEp+wKdU=rA@mail.gmail.com>
On 03.02.2016 08:35, Jacob Keller wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 8:25 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> I think the problem is that when git "switches" to working in the
>> submodule repository, it clears the environment, which includes any "-c"
>> command switches. This makes sense for some situations, but not for
>> others. This thread shows a similar problem:
>>
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/264840
>>
>> Jens suggested there adding an option to tell clone to pass specific
>> variables to the submodule, which I think makes sense. AFAIK, nobody has
>> done any work yet on that approach.
>>
>
> This is something that I am also interested in, haven't had a chance
> to look at it just yet though. I may have some time soon to take a
> stab at this.
To have this issue addressed would be great. It's currently preventing
me to switch our authentication-related code to credential helpers.
Jake, I'm happy to help, if I can (I don't have any experience with Git
code though, except of browsing it a couple of times ... so patches from
my side would need a lot of review I guess :). Just let me know.
-Marc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-03 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-02 17:13 git submodule should honor "-c credential.helper" command line argument Marc Strapetz
2016-02-03 4:25 ` Jeff King
2016-02-03 7:35 ` Jacob Keller
2016-02-03 8:08 ` Marc Strapetz [this message]
2016-02-03 23:44 ` Jacob Keller
2016-02-07 4:41 ` Jacob Keller
2016-02-07 13:48 ` Marc Strapetz
2016-02-08 3:44 ` Jacob Keller
2016-02-19 1:15 ` Jacob Keller
2016-02-19 4:30 ` Jeff King
2016-02-19 7:29 ` Jacob Keller
2016-02-19 7:46 ` Jeff King
2016-02-19 7:51 ` Jacob Keller
2016-02-19 17:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-19 19:34 ` Jacob Keller
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