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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, msysgit@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] compat/terminal: support echoing on windows
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:08:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120627210810.GC2292@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1340544903-37016-1-git-send-email-kusmabite@gmail.com>

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 03:35:03PM +0200, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:

> Without /dev/tty support, git_terminal_prompt simply ignores the
> 'echo'-parameter. On Windows we can do better by clevering up our
> getpass-implementation a bit so it can conditionally echo.
> 
> While we're at it, plug a small memory-leak by returning a pointer
> to a static strbuf instead of detaching it. This is the same thing
> the /dev/tty-version of git_terminal_prompt does, and the callee
> doesn't expect to have to free it's memory.

Very nice. I was hoping for something exactly like this when I wrote the
original git_terminal_prompt patch.

-Peff

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-06-27 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-24 13:35 [PATCH/RFC] compat/terminal: support echoing on windows Erik Faye-Lund
2012-06-24 14:38 ` Johannes Schindelin
2012-06-24 15:38   ` Erik Faye-Lund
2012-06-25 15:06 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2012-06-27 21:08 ` Jeff King [this message]

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