From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Taylor Blau" <me@ttaylorr.com>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón" <carenas@gmail.com>,
"Leonardo Bras" <leobras.c@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Jan Viktorin" <viktorin@rehivetech.com>,
"Michal Nazarewicz" <mina86@mina86.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-email: Defines smtpPassCmd config option
Date: Sun, 3 May 2020 16:27:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200503162757.GE6530@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200503094348.GE170902@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On 2020-05-03 at 09:43:48, Jeff King wrote:
> On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 11:59:48PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
>
> > I think perhaps many folks aren't aware that you can invoke Git with an
> > arbitrary shell command as "credential.helper", which of course makes
> > life a lot easier. So if you want to invoke a separate command, it's
> > really as easy as this:
> >
> > git config credential.smtp://smtp.crustytoothpaste.net.helper \
> > '!f() { echo username=my-username; echo "password=$(my-password-command)"; }; f'
> >
> > So I think that documenting the use of the credential helper is step 1,
> > because probably most people _do_ want to use that for their passwords,
> > and then documenting that credential helpers can be arbitrary shell
> > commands that speak the protocol is step 2, so that people who don't can
> > figure out a way to do what they want.
> >
> > I'll send some patches later which document the latter feature, since I
> > don't think we mention it anywhere outside of the FAQ. I actually
> > didn't know about it until Peff mentioned it to me one time.
>
> This is documented, but only recently did it make it out of
> Documentation/technical/ and into gitcredentials(7). I don't mind adding
> more pointers, though.
Ah, yes, I remembered that series, but forgot that it introduced
documentation for that.
I'll just send a patch that updates the config option to mention the
other cases, since we already document it in gitcredentials(7).
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brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-01 10:51 [PATCH] send-email: Defines smtpPassCmd config option Leonardo Bras
2020-05-01 12:53 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-05-01 15:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-01 22:27 ` Taylor Blau
2020-05-01 23:59 ` brian m. carlson
2020-05-03 9:43 ` Jeff King
2020-05-03 16:27 ` brian m. carlson [this message]
2020-05-03 23:48 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-05-04 19:49 ` Leonardo Bras
2020-05-04 20:35 ` Jeff King
2020-05-04 21:29 ` Leonardo Bras
2020-05-04 19:09 ` Leonardo Bras
2020-05-04 19:02 ` Leonardo Bras
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