From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F481C38A2D for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2022 01:03:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230301AbiJYBDV (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Oct 2022 21:03:21 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:60422 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230271AbiJYBCu (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Oct 2022 21:02:50 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net (cloud.peff.net [104.130.231.41]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2F7707B7A0 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2022 17:00:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 4621 invoked by uid 109); 25 Oct 2022 00:00:20 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with ESMTP; Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:00:20 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 12647 invoked by uid 111); 25 Oct 2022 00:00:21 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with (TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 24 Oct 2022 20:00:21 -0400 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 20:00:19 -0400 From: Jeff King To: M Hickford via GitGitGadget Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, M Hickford Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: clarify that credential discards unrecognised attributes Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 07:59:22PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > We did discuss patches a long time ago that would let Git carry > arbitrary keys between helpers, even if Git itself didn't understand it. > One of the intended uses was to let helpers talk to each other about > TTLs. So if you had say: > > [credential] > helper = generate-some-token > helper = cache > > where the first helper generates a token, and the second caches it, the > first one could shove a "ttl" or "expiration" key into the protocol, > which the cache could then learn to respect. In case anyone is morbidly curious, it was in this thread: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20120407033417.GA13914@sigill.intra.peff.net/ -Peff