From: Siavash <siavash.askari.nasr@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Siavash <siavash.askari.nasr@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug] git-credential-netrc.perl is not built and is not available in `exec-path`
Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 14:56:09 +0430 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgwocri7.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YKbJdiMNGaJAls4y@google.com>
Hi,
On 2021-05-21 01:11:26 +0430, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm missing some basic information:
> - what platform are you running on?
I'm using Arch Linux with Linux v5.12.5-arch1-1.
> - what commands did you use to install Git?
`sudo pacman -S git`
> - what are you trying to do? That can help us with understanding the
> problem or giving better advice tailored to the use case. The netrc
> credential helper is mostly meant as a demo, since libcurl supports
> ~/.netrc on its own already.
I wanted to use `git-credential-netrc.perl` to use `.authinfo.gpg` as
git credential. The `gitcredentials` manual said use:
`git config --global credential-helper foo`
for using credential helpers. It also mentioned that `git credential-`
gets prepended to the external helpers. So I expected:
`git config --global credential-helper 'netrc'`
to work.
I can use it as a helper if I use an absolute path:
'/usr/share/git/credential/netrc/git-credential-netrc.perl'
After looking at the `PKGBUILD` file in Arch Linux's git repository, I
found out that they are not making "netrc".
https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/4864e39da0bc99e373f3cb728272a93d66b58cd6/trunk/PKGBUILD#L63-L64
So this is not a bug. As Jeff King mentioned as well.
I should have checked the `PKGBUILD`.
The output of `git --exec-path` is `/usr/lib/git-core`. And there are
other helpers there(made by Arch Linux).
This is the output of `lsd /usr/lib/git-core/ | rg credential`:
git-credential
git-credential-cache
git-credential-cache--daemon
git-credential-gnome-keyring
git-credential-libsecret
git-credential-store
I expected the third-party helpers to be in the output of `git help -a`
as mentioned in the manual. They are not in the `PATH`, but they are in
git's `exec-path`. So shouldn't they be printed in the help output?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-21 10:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-20 9:51 [Bug] git-credential-netrc.perl is not built and is not available in `exec-path` Siavash
2021-05-20 20:41 ` Jonathan Nieder
2021-05-21 10:26 ` Siavash [this message]
2021-05-21 1:55 ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-21 10:04 ` Jeff King
2021-05-21 22:27 ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-23 19:57 ` Jeff King
2021-05-24 3:01 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-24 10:05 ` Renaming "non-contrib" things out of contrib/* (was "Re: [Bug] git-credential-netrc.perl[...]") Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-24 17:21 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-24 23:18 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-25 1:23 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-25 6:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-25 7:31 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-05-25 9:05 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-25 10:35 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-21 10:06 ` [Bug] git-credential-netrc.perl is not built and is not available in `exec-path` Jeff King
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