Re: [PATCH 06/12] meson: wire up credential helpers

[M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 at 11:14, Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 10:11:23AM +0000, M Hickford wrote:
> > > Note that ideally, we'd also wire up t0303 to be executed with each of
> > > the credential helpers to verify their functionality. Unfortunately
> > > though, none of them pass the test suite right now, so this is left for
> > > a future change.
> >
> > Out of curiosity, which tests failed?
>
> Basically all of them. I originally had the patch at the bottom of this
> email. With that in place, we re-run t0303 for every configured
> credential helper, where `GIT_TEST_CREDENTIAL_HELPER` is set to the
> respective credential helper under test. We have to disable parallel
> tests there because the test state directories would otherwise conflict
> with one another.
>
> Now you can for example:
>
>     $ meson setup build -Dcredential_helpers=libsecret,netrc
>     $ meson test -C build t0303-*
>
> And that shows failures like:
>
>     --- expect-stderr   2025-02-18 11:09:33.323668205 +0000
>     +++ stderr  2025-02-18 11:09:33.347668278 +0000
>     @@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
>     +
>     +** (process:75536): CRITICAL **: 11:09:33.339: lookup failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files
>      askpass: Username for 'https://example.com':
>      askpass: Password for 'https://askpass-username@example.com':
>     error: last command exited with $?=1
>     not ok 1 - helper (/home/pks/Development/git/build/contrib/credential/libsecret/git-credential-libsecret) has no existing data
>
> I might be missing how exactly to set all of this up so that things
> actually work. Maybe I have to do something specific for each of the
> helpers via `GIT_TEST_CREDENTIAL_HELPER_SETUP`. But t0303 isn't wired up
> via our Makefiles for any of the helpers, as far as I can see, so I'm
> unable to figure out what such a setup would look like.
>
> Any hints would be welcome.

Before you can use git-credential-libsecret, you'd need to install
gnome-keyring, run gnome-keyring-daemon, and create a keyring
(choosing a password, can be empty).
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/548005/7732