From: Laszlo Papp <djszapi@archlinux.us>
To: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Cc: Frank Li <lznuaa@gmail.com>, Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Use GIT_ASKPASS environment to launch thirdpart UI app to get password
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:15:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a362e8011002250915l7e42beel316878b60899c440@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100225091500.GB2903@gmail.com>
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:15 AM, David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 04:13:01PM +0800, Frank Li wrote:
>>
>> > Many users already have SSH_ASKPASS defined. It would be very
>> > nice if we supported SSH_ASKPASS as a fallback when GIT_ASKPASS
>> > is not provided.
>> >
>>
>> I consider add such fallback at git.c. when user use git svn, git
>> main program will be called firstly.
>> git main entry will check if GIT_ASKPASS and SSH_ASKPASS, if
>> SSH_ASKPASS set but GIT_ASKPASS not set,
>> GIT_ASKPASS will be set as SSH_ASKPASS.
>>
>> Do you think we needs add such check at git-svn.perl ?
>>
>> best regards
>> Frank Li
>
> Interesting question. I had never thought of moving the
> fallback to git.
>
> I would have done it in the script as a localized fix but
> I definately see the value in aiding scripts from
> all having to implement this same fallback, though:
>
> $ENV{GIT_ASKPASS} ||= $ENV{SSH_ASKPASS};
>
> If Junio, Eric, and the git list think that this should
> live in git instead then by all means.
>
> --
> David
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I don't think localized fix in every scripts, third party application
is the good and the trivial solution for this issue. I'm just a simple
TortoiseGIT user, but I guess other GUIs, frontends suffer from this
problem too.
Best Regards,
Laszlo Papp
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-25 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-23 11:11 [PATCH 1/1] Use GIT_ASKPASS environment to launch thirdpart UI app to get password Frank Li
2010-02-23 23:31 ` Laszlo Papp
2010-02-24 5:13 ` David Aguilar
2010-02-24 5:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-24 8:13 ` Frank Li
2010-02-25 9:15 ` David Aguilar
2010-02-25 17:15 ` Laszlo Papp [this message]
2010-02-26 0:15 ` Frank Li
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