Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:53:19AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Either way it still encourages a plaintext password to be on disk, >> which may not be what we want, even though it may be slight if not >> really much of an improvement. Again the Help-for-users has this >> amusing bit: > > I do not mind a .netrc or .authinfo parser, because while those formats > do have security problems, they are standard files that may already be > in use. So as long as we are not encouraging their use, I do not see a > problem in supporting them (and we already do the same with curl's netrc > support). > > But it would probably make sense for send-email to support the existing > git-credential subsystem, so that it can take advantage of secure > system-specific storage. And that is where we should be pointing new > users. I think contrib/mw-to-git even has credential support written in > perl, so it would just need to be factored out to Git.pm.
I see a lot of rerolls on the credential helper front, but is there anybody working on hooking send-email to the credential framework? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
