Implement --password option for git svn perl script

Implement --password option for git svn perl script

[Laszlo Papp]

Hello,

It would be nice to use --pasword option on windows, like --username
option with git svn facility. I can't handle SVN repository with git
svn on windows if I'd like to authenticate myself with other user than
the default domain name of my windows.

If I use --username option, Frank Li said me it's not enough in
TortoiseGIT to provide a popup facility to type the password related
to the set --username option.

What's your opinion/suggestion/recommendation ?

Best Regards,
Laszlo Papp

Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[Laszlo Papp]

Hello,

It would be nice to use --pasword option on windows, like --username
option with git svn facility. I can't handle SVN repository with git
svn on windows if I'd like to authenticate myself with other user than
the default domain name of my windows.

If I use --username option, Frank Li said me it's not enough in
TortoiseGIT to provide a popup facility to type the password related
to the set --username option.

What's your opinion/suggestion/recommendation ?

Best Regards,
Laszlo Papp

Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[Frank Li]

>
> If I use --username option, Frank Li said me it's not enough in
> TortoiseGIT to provide a popup facility to type the password related
> to the set --username option.
>

I prefer git-svn can provide environment to launch a external
application to input password like open ssh.

Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[Laszlo Papp]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Frank Li <lznuaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> If I use --username option, Frank Li said me it's not enough in
>> TortoiseGIT to provide a popup facility to type the password related
>> to the set --username option.
>>
>
> I prefer git-svn can provide environment to launch a external
> application to input password like open ssh.
>

No perl guru among the volunteers if the original author is not available ? :(

Best Regards,
Laszlo Papp

Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[Tay Ray Chuan]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Frank Li <lznuaa@gmail.com> wrote:
> I prefer git-svn can provide environment to launch a external
> application to input password like open ssh.

how about users who are authenticating over http with basic and
digest? How does one go about launching an external app for password
input in those cases?

Please don't take this as a criticism of your personal preference. I
believe this feature would make things convenient for users who want
it - those who don't, nothing changes.

Even ssh (via ssh-keygen) lets you specify the passphrase at
command-run time. Others include htpasswd, htdigest...

-- 
Cheers,
Ray Chuan

Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[Frank Li]

2010/2/2 Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Frank Li <lznuaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I prefer git-svn can provide environment to launch a external
>> application to input password like open ssh.
>
> how about users who are authenticating over http with basic and
> digest? How does one go about launching an external app for password
> input in those cases?

There are not problem if run git svn clone from console.
But a gui application, such tortoisegit, launch "git svn clone" and
capture git svn clone output.
If passwd needed, git svn clone will read character from console but
GUI application don't know that and wait git svn output.
So there are dead lock till timeout and fail.

The same problem has been happen at ssh.  But OpenSSH provide a
option, environment SSH_ASKPASS, which point to a application. when
passwd need, openssh launch this GUI application,  user can input
passwd at this GUI application.

The basic requirement is git svn can provide a way to prompt a dialog
box to input passwd.

Frank Li

Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[Laszlo Papp]

> The basic requirement is git svn can provide a way to prompt a dialog
> box to input passwd.

Yeah, it's a very basic use case, but I don't know whether there is a
workaround for it somehow, maybe perl gurus or git svn users could
help more...

My company, where there are windows users (95% of the company), would
like to use TortoiseGIT as a graphical client for SVN server
repositories as an SVN client, no other way by us, so it'd be high
priority :) So I've got a beer for any volunteer, thanks :P

Best Regards,
Laszlo Papp

Re: Implement --password option for git svn perl script

[Eric Wong]

Laszlo Papp <djszapi@archlinux.us> wrote:
> > The basic requirement is git svn can provide a way to prompt a dialog
> > box to input passwd.
> 
> Yeah, it's a very basic use case, but I don't know whether there is a
> workaround for it somehow, maybe perl gurus or git svn users could
> help more...
> 
> My company, where there are windows users (95% of the company), would
> like to use TortoiseGIT as a graphical client for SVN server
> repositories as an SVN client, no other way by us, so it'd be high
> priority :) So I've got a beer for any volunteer, thanks :P

Hi, (fixed subject so I don't mistake it for junk again)

I don't know (and have no way to test) how to deal with input dialogs
for reading a password on Windows (nor any sort of IPC).  Somebody else
will have to implement it.

Having a --password option in the command line could work, but it's
painfully insecure if there's any way for another regular user to view
the process table.  Not something I'd like to encourage...

Since SVN already caches passwords in a mostly secure location on disk
(at least on *nix), shouldn't git svn be able to use the password cache
SVN uses?

-- 
Eric Wong

Re: Implement --password option for git svn perl script

[Frank Li]

> Having a --password option in the command line could work, but it's
> painfully insecure if there's any way for another regular user to view
> the process table.  Not something I'd like to encourage...
>

Yes, it is insecure. "--password" seam undocumented.

> Since SVN already caches passwords in a mostly secure location on disk
> (at least on *nix), shouldn't git svn be able to use the password cache
> SVN uses?
>
> --
> Eric Wong
>

Re: Implement --password option for git svn perl script

[Laszlo Papp]

> Since SVN already caches passwords in a mostly secure location on disk
> (at least on *nix), shouldn't git svn be able to use the password cache
> SVN uses?

@Frank Li
@Eric Wong

Maybe you can check whether how TortoiseSVN or SVN client code handle
this situation, because it's the same server, but 'just' the client
side is different a little bit, but the same situation happen there in
case TortoiseSVN a popup menu appears when you try to authenticate
yourself.

Second way is to ask on the SVN mailing list, how they use it, or
maybe I'm totally wrong with it :P

Best Regards,
Laszlo Papp

Re: Implement --password option for git svn perl script

[Frank Li]

Is it possible use OpenSSH method to let GUI to input passwd.
environment SSH_ASKPASS, which point to a application. when
passwd need, openssh launch this GUI application,  user can input
passwd at this GUI application.

Re: Implement --password option for git svn perl script

[Laszlo Papp]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Frank Li <lznuaa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible use OpenSSH method to let GUI to input passwd.
> environment SSH_ASKPASS, which point to a application. when
> passwd need, openssh launch this GUI application,  user can input
> passwd at this GUI application.
>

What do you mean ? Should I install TortoiseGIT with openssh client,
so should I need to choose this option from the 2 facilities ?

Best Regards,
Laszlo Papp

Re: Implement --password option for git svn perl script

[Steve Diver]

On 02/02/2010 09:05, Eric Wong wrote:
>
> Laszlo Papp<djszapi@archlinux.us>  wrote:
>>> The basic requirement is git svn can provide a way to prompt a dialog
>>> box to input passwd.
>>
>> Yeah, it's a very basic use case, but I don't know whether there is a
>> workaround for it somehow, maybe perl gurus or git svn users could
>> help more...
>>
>> My company, where there are windows users (95% of the company), would
>> like to use TortoiseGIT as a graphical client for SVN server
>> repositories as an SVN client, no other way by us, so it'd be high
>> priority :) So I've got a beer for any volunteer, thanks :P
>
> Hi, (fixed subject so I don't mistake it for junk again)
>
> I don't know (and have no way to test) how to deal with input dialogs
> for reading a password on Windows (nor any sort of IPC).  Somebody else
> will have to implement it.
>
> Having a --password option in the command line could work, but it's
> painfully insecure if there's any way for another regular user to view
> the process table.  Not something I'd like to encourage...
>
> Since SVN already caches passwords in a mostly secure location on disk
> (at least on *nix), shouldn't git svn be able to use the password cache
> SVN uses?
>

Tortoise, along with at least one other Windows GUI utilizes the Putty 
suite as a helper app for key chain and password handling, and needs to 
be loaded prior to any SSH operations. Tortoise have gone so far as to 
rewrite plink (Tortoiseplink.exe)so that that a prompt for the password 
is given, but this is undocumented AFAIK.

Otherwise, it is an unfortunate fact that a DOS console session is 
invoked whenever openSSH is used. For the average Windows user this is a 
scary occurrence, and is one of the obstacles that prevents wider casual 
take up of Git on Windows IMHO.

I understand that it comes down to a problem with communication between 
a dialogue and an SSH client via STDOUT. I believe Dscho might have some 
insight into this as it is a recurrent topic on the MsysGit tracker.

Steve

Re: Implement --password option for git svn perl script

[Laszlo Papp]

Any workflow in this task ? :((

Best Regards,
Laszlo Papp

Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[Simon Grönlund]

Since recent weekend I face an error trying to execute git svn fetch
-q. trying to build an index from scratch does not help.

$ git svn fetch
error: short read No such file or directory
fatal: Unable to add (null) to database
   at /usr/lib64/perl5/SVN/Ra.pm line 623

$ git --version
git version 1.7.2

$ svn --version
svn, version 1.6.9 (r901367)

$ sqlite3 --version
3.6.22

$ perl --version
This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi

$ uname -a
Linux host 2.6.33.6-147.fc13.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jul 6 22:32:17 UTC 2010
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

yum says
git-1.7.2-1.fc13.x86_64
subversion-1.6.9-2.fc13.x86_64
sqlite-3.6.22-1.fc13.x86_64
perl-5.10.1-114.fc13.x86_64

The error points me to perl5/SVN/Ra.pm line 623 which is at the lat line in
our $AUTOLOAD;
sub AUTOLOAD {
    my $class = ref($_[0]);
    $AUTOLOAD =~ s/^${class}::(SUPER::)?//;
    return if $AUTOLOAD =~ m/^[A-Z]/;

    my $self = shift;
    no strict 'refs';

    print $self, "\n";
    print $AUTOLOAD, "\n";
    print @_, "\n\n";

    my $method = $self->can("invoke_$AUTOLOAD")
        or die "no such method $AUTOLOAD";

    no warnings 'uninitialized';
    $method->(@$self, @_);
}

The 3 print-debug lines are added by me and they emits the following:
$ git svn fetch
SVN::Ra::Reporter=ARRAY(0x2b04418)
set_path
Use of uninitialized value $_[3] in print at
/usr/lib64/perl5/SVN/Ra.pm line 621.
721210SVN::Pool=REF(0x2b04130)

SVN::Ra::Reporter=ARRAY(0x2b04418)
set_path
Use of uninitialized value $_[3] in print at
/usr/lib64/perl5/SVN/Ra.pm line 621.
branches721210SVN::Pool=REF(0x2b04130)

SVN::Ra::Reporter=ARRAY(0x2b04418)
set_path
Use of uninitialized value $_[3] in print at
/usr/lib64/perl5/SVN/Ra.pm line 621.
branches/4.272117SVN::Pool=REF(0x2b04130)

SVN::Ra::Reporter=ARRAY(0x2b04418)
finish_report
SVN::Pool=REF(0x2b04130)

error: short read No such file or directory
fatal: Unable to add (null) to database
 at /usr/lib64/perl5/SVN/Ra.pm line 627

Unfortunately I have been unable to debug this further.




Git works flawlessly in this setup with another branch of the same SVN
repository but I have not been able to pinpoint which revision or what
else that can be wrong here.

Is this error introduced with the recent release of Git?
Is there some mismatch between Git, Svn, Perl, or Sqlite?

Grateful for tips or hints.

/Simon

Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[David Xu]

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Hi, this is my revised proposal for git. I was unable to find a public bug
list, so I couldn't specify which bugs I would attempt to fix in the project
schedule. I apologize for this coming in a bit late, I had classes and an
interview today, so I just got back home.

Thank you!
-David

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Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[Rajat Khanduja]

Hi

I am a student interested in participating in GSOC'12 and was curious
to know if Git is participating in the program this year.

Sincerely,

Rajat

Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[Jeff King]

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:32:37AM +0530, Rajat Khanduja wrote:

> I am a student interested in participating in GSOC'12 and was curious
> to know if Git is participating in the program this year.

We haven't applied yet, but I think we are planning on it. Getting our
application started is on my to-do list this week.

-Peff

Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[Harring Figueiredo]

Hello folks,


 Just want to confirm that this is not a bug:

 <code>
 bunde.c: 443

  printf_ln(Q_("The bundle requires this ref",
                                      "The bundle requires these %d refs",
                                      r->nr),
                                   r->nr);

 </code>

 seems to be missing %d parameter on the first message.
 Please let me know if this is a bug or if it indeed should be like this.

 I am not a expert on gettext :-(

 Thank you!
 -hff

Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[Junio C Hamano]

Harring Figueiredo <harringf@gmail.com> writes:

>  Just want to confirm that this is not a bug:
> ...
>   printf_ln(Q_("The bundle requires this ref",
>                                       "The bundle requires these %d refs",
>                                       r->nr),
>                                    r->nr);
> ...
>  seems to be missing %d parameter on the first message.

Perhaps visit

	http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Plural-forms

look for "In the English singular case,..." and read the
explanation there?

Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[Harring Figueiredo]

Got it!

From the recommended site:

--
In the English singular case, the number – always 1 – can be replaced
with "one":

          printf (ngettext ("One file removed", "%d files removed", n), n);
This works because the ‘printf’ function discards excess arguments
that are not consumed by the format string.
--

Junio, thank you so much for the  reply and link to the docs.

-hff

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Harring Figueiredo <harringf@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>  Just want to confirm that this is not a bug:
>> ...
>>   printf_ln(Q_("The bundle requires this ref",
>>                                       "The bundle requires these %d refs",
>>                                       r->nr),
>>                                    r->nr);
>> ...
>>  seems to be missing %d parameter on the first message.
>
> Perhaps visit
>
>         http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Plural-forms
>
> look for "In the English singular case,..." and read the
> explanation there?
>

Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[Amate Yolande]

Hello Junio

          Thanks for the quick review and I apologize for the poorly
constructed code. I am
new to open source and git, and that was my first time coming across
the git source
code so I hoped to submit a working patch first, with the intention of
amending it later since
I did not really understand the requirements. With your clarification
and getting my self
familiar with the git commands, I hope to submit an accurate patch.

Thanks

[Bug] git branch -v has problems with carriage returns

[Animi Vulpis]

Hi,

I upgraded to git v2.13.0 and since then git branch -v has problems
with carriage returns in subject lines.

We are using gitlab (not the newest version). So this bug (It's about
carriage returns in auto-generated merge messages (\r\n)) is not yet
fixed in our version:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/31671
That's were the carriage returns are coming from.

In my specific case the auto-generated merge message has three lines
with empty lines in between.
So every line ends with `\r\n\r\n`

If I do `git branch -v` with such a subject line somehow the third and
second line get combined before the hash. Example:

$ git branch -v
See merge request !XXXX temp space 84e18d22fd Merge branch
'feature-XXX' into 'develop'
# <begins with third line> <ending of seconds line (if longer than
third)> <commit hash (correct)> <subject line (correct)>

Before git v2.13.0 `git branch -v` worked completely normal.

I was not able to create a minimal local example, because my manually
created \r\n in commit messages were transformed into \n\n

Please let me know if I can provide any more information that would be helpful.

Cheers

Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[Atousa Duprat]

Hi,

I have tried to repro this issue but git goes out of its way to store
the commit messages using unix end-of-line format.
I think that git itself cannot create a repo exhibiting this problem.

Most helpful would be if you could create a mini repo using gitlab.
All it would need is one file, two branches, and a merge.
With that in hand, it should be pretty easy to track down the problem
and fix git.

You mentioned that the previous version you were using was working
fine, can you tell me which version that was?
It'll help to narrow down the changes that could have affected the issue.

Thanks,

Atousa

Problem installing Git

[Phil Martel]

Hi,

I'm trying to install Git-2.15.0-64-bit.exe onto my Windows 10 machine.  
When I run this installer program no matter what options I try or 
whether I run as administrator it ends up with an error box saying "The 
drive or UNC share you selected does not exist or is not accessible. 
Please select another".  I do not see any way of selecting a drive.  Any 
suggestions?

Best wishes,

--Phil Martel

Re: Problem installing Git

[Igor Djordjevic]

[ +Cc:  Git for Windows mailing list ]

Hi Phil,

On 23/11/2017 19:51, Phil Martel wrote:
> I'm trying to install Git-2.15.0-64-bit.exe onto my Windows 10 
> machine.  When I run this installer program no matter what options I 
> try or whether I run as administrator it ends up with an error box 
> saying "The drive or UNC share you selected does not exist or is not 
> accessible. Please select another".  I do not see any way of 
> selecting a drive.  Any suggestions?

From what I could Google around, this seems to be (Inno Setup?) 
installation related issue...?

Do you already have "Git for Windows" installed? If so, does it work 
if you try uninstalling it first?

Regards, Buga

p.s. Note the existence of "Git for Windows"[1] specific mailing list 
as well, where this issue might belong better.

[1] git-for-windows@googlegroups.com

Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[Igor Djordjevic]

On 23/11/2017 22:30, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
> Hello igor.d.djordjevic@gmail.com,
> 
> We're writing to let you know that the group you tried to contact (git-for-windows) may not exist, or you may not have permission to post messages to the group. A few more details on why you weren't able to post:
> 
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>  * The owner of the group may have removed this group.
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> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Google Groups

Well, seems that +Cc-ing wasn`t the most successful one... :P

Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[Senol Yazici]

Hi all,

I just stumbled over following page

https://git-scm.com/about/distributed

and was wondering if it is possible to

- demilitarise that “dictator/lieutenant” thing and
- de-religionise that “blessed” thing

I did not had the feeling that git is “pro military”, or is against
“non religious” developers/users.

Thank you very much,

Senol Yazici

RE: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[Randall S. Becker]

On February 18, 2019 5:47, Senol Yazici
> I just stumbled over following page
> 
> https://git-scm.com/about/distributed
> 
> and was wondering if it is possible to
> 
> - demilitarise that “dictator/lieutenant” thing and
> - de-religionise that “blessed” thing
> 
> I did not had the feeling that git is “pro military”, or is against “non religious”
> developers/users.

I think there is a point here. In some of my customers, we have replaced these terms with the following (the Repository is optional in the second two):

* Blessed: Repository of Record
* Dictator: Committer [Repository]
* Lieutenant: Contributor [Repository]

This seems more closely aligned with the real roles being applied to activities associated with the repositories involved.

Taking a lesson from other Open Source projects, Jenkins has deprecated Master/Slave in favour of Controller/Agent. This seems not only more acceptable to some, but in my view more descriptive. The terms on the page above do not actually make any descriptive sense to a newbie. And confusion could ensue from the dictionary definitions:

* Lieutenant: an aide or representative of another in the performance of duty : assistant (not what that repository is for)
* Dictator: one holding complete autocratic control : a person with unlimited governmental power (not how the git team behaves)
* Blessed: honored in worship : hallowed; of or enjoying happiness (although I can see the happiness part of this one)

Regards,
Randall

Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[Johannes Schindelin]

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Hi,


On Mon, 18 Feb 2019, Senol Yazici wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I just stumbled over following page
> 
> https://git-scm.com/about/distributed
> 
> and was wondering if it is possible to
> 
> - demilitarise that “dictator/lieutenant” thing and
> - de-religionise that “blessed” thing
> 
> I did not had the feeling that git is “pro military”, or is against
> “non religious” developers/users.

Those are valid concerns, and I value your feedback.

It would probably be a good thing to change this, and you can even do it
yourself: create a Pull Request to change this file:

https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/blob/master/app/views/about/_distributed.html.erb

Looking forward to your enhancements,
Johannes

> 
> Thank you very much,
> 
> Senol Yazici
> 

RE: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[Jason Pyeron]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johannes Schindelin
> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2019 4:00 PM
> 
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2019, Senol Yazici wrote:
> >
> > I just stumbled over following page
> >
> > https://git-scm.com/about/distributed
> >
> > and was wondering if it is possible to
> >
> > - demilitarise that “dictator/lieutenant” thing and
> > - de-religionise that “blessed” thing
> >
> > I did not had the feeling that git is “pro military”, or is against
> > “non religious” developers/users.
> 
> Those are valid concerns, and I value your feedback.
> 
> It would probably be a good thing to change this, and you can even do it
> yourself: create a Pull Request to change this file:
> 
> https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/blob/master/app/views/about/_distributed.html.erb
> 

Curious, where are the sources for the PNGs saved? I did not find any obvious vector or art project files.

-Jason

Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[Xeno Amess]

Not all people can afford stable network connection...
I'm now suffered from connection lost and have to restart the clone/push fully.
It's OK when dealing with a project of several MB size, but when I try
to clone a 2GB sized repo I never succeed.
So I wonder, if there should be some way to resume from break-point for git?
For example what if we support something like Content-Range in http,
and make the download be split into smaller files, then make some way
to auto-resume if some file block failed hash-check?

Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[Σταύρος Ντέντος]

Hello there,

If I do
git config core.commentChar %

then, during a rebase operation, squash/fixup comments do not honor
the core.commentChar setting

Ντέντος Σταύρος