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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] echo usernames as they are typed
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:59:56 -0500
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On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 01:59:34PM +0100, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:

> > Certainly on non-Windows something like that would not be welcome. The
> > user can already have specified GIT_ASKPASS if they don't have a
> > terminal. And once the credential-helper code is in, they can use a
> > platform-specific helper that provides a nice dialog if they want it.
> >
> 
> Yes, that's certainly cleaner implementation-wise. But didn't you
> change it to only do the storage-part in the last round, or did I
> misunderstand the updated series?

Yeah, sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself. I left room in the spec for an
"ask" operation on helpers, but I haven't implemented it yet.

-Peff