From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add a new option 'core.askpass'. Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:28:38 -0700 Message-ID: <7vaao8hsmx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <201008271251.19754.k.franke@science-computing.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Frank Li To: Knut Franke X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 27 19:29:10 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Op2jl-0001NU-MZ for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:29:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754981Ab0H0R2r (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:28:47 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:64214 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754969Ab0H0R2r (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:28:47 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDE81D01A1; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:28:46 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s= sasl; bh=XjqvD+YEiGjPUB2lJYgutjuUuQQ=; b=mFSWM++zwQ1exaI5gMNBJFF uFO6n8xZ1Ghq1ZtG4/INE9vtpztWghH3EOmqq2e3lAeTXi0HWo2GQ1/rcyd579uQ Qjjct6LRhm0Rmsb8H2vx+SLaQ51tXdcHq5Mehr6KuAH3iQ58CsBISPTsg/YwRq6C bQ05DcZY9WjskWLix/4E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; q= dns; s=sasl; b=P8xCCBC/5AeGsnku7OPWfZIB+QwlEK8UsYathwVe5gDuSS1ch 2yVIThVaQ1M2qF3Q2KqSvUDQPiyrxojA7pBytgJkhJhxmeEQt6+QOqcU0/VosXiK 248uJpwl8HWck2I93xxazJgEIq3nqYU57uTwo85HcgSFp23Go6P0x2U7eg= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACB15D019C; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:28:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.252.155]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F39CED0194; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:28:39 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 8A70E5A4-B200-11DF-8AB0-030CEE7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Knut Franke writes: > From: Anselm Kruis > > Setting this option has the same effect as setting the environment variable > 'GIT_ASKPASS'. > > Signed-off-by: Knut Franke > --- > This is useful if you have a wrapper script around git-clone doing some site- > specific customizations, but want users to be able to use plain git commands > for other operations. I don't see ASKPASS documented anywhere in the Documentation/ in the first place. Perhaps we would want to fix that while we are at it. Also this does not feel like a "core." thing, but it may be just me.