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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: M Hickford via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: clarify that credential discards unrecognised attributes
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 20:00:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y1cnE5cyN1NBdmCv@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y1cm2a3qy9aowwNh@coredump.intra.peff.net>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-25  1:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-24  7:57 [PATCH] docs: clarify that credential discards unrecognised attributes M Hickford via GitGitGadget
2022-10-24 23:59 ` Jeff King
2022-10-25  0:00   ` Jeff King [this message]
2022-10-25  1:51   ` Thanks M Hickford
2022-10-25  9:05     ` Thanks Bagas Sanjaya
2022-10-26  4:39       ` Thanks M Hickford
2022-10-26  5:18         ` Thanks Jeff King
2022-10-26  9:36         ` Thanks Junio C Hamano
2022-11-12  2:21   ` [PATCH] docs: clarify that credential discards unrecognised attributes M Hickford
2022-11-12 16:47     ` Jeff King
2022-11-12 19:08       ` M Hickford
2022-11-14 22:40         ` Jeff King
2022-11-13  4:56       ` Taylor Blau

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