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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Wishlist] could git tell which password it is asking when asking a password.
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:01:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aacxepnm.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87tyb5n6pk.dlv@debian.org

On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:25:59 +0200 Rémi Vanicat <vanicat@debian.org> wrote: 

RV> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>> I was wondering about that when I gave that quick patch.  And "as a human"
>> may not necessarily apply when you are letting submodule fetch to recurse.

RV> I also believe that having the host name would be useful, both for human
RV> (another example would be git remote update when there are several
RV> remote) and script.  

Maybe (using %U for the URL, %h for the host, %u for the user name):

"User name for %h: " OR "User name for %h (%U): "

"Password for %u@%h: " OR "Password for %u@%h (%U): "

with some way to switch between the two styles?

Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-01 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-01 13:59 [Wishlist] could git tell which password it is asking when asking a password Rémi Vanicat
2011-07-01 17:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-01 17:16   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-01 17:18     ` Shawn Pearce
2011-07-01 17:50       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-01 19:25         ` Rémi Vanicat
2011-07-01 20:01           ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-07-01 20:30           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-01 20:48             ` Jeff King
2011-07-01 20:46   ` Jeff King
2011-07-01 17:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-07-14 14:05   ` encrypted netrc for Git (was: [Wishlist] could git tell which password it is asking when asking a password.) Ted Zlatanov
2011-07-14 15:00     ` Jeff King
2011-07-15 17:08       ` encrypted netrc for Git Ted Zlatanov
2011-07-15 21:05         ` Jeff King

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