kernel/git - git - PowerEL Git System

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Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Jeff King	42fa0cbfe0	credential: handle invalid arguments earlier The git-credential command only takes one argument: the operation to perform. If we don't have one, we complain immediately. But if we have one that we don't recognize, we don't notice until after we've read the credential from stdin. This is likely to confuse a user invoking "git credential -h", as the program will hang waiting for their input before showing anything. Let's detect this case early. Likewise, we never noticed when there are extra arguments beyond the one we're expecting. Let's catch this with the same conditional. Note that we don't need to handle "--help" similarly, because the git wrapper does this before even calling cmd_credential(). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>	8 years ago
Matthieu Moy	2d6dc182b8	git credential fill: output the whole 'struct credential' Instead of outputing only the username and password, print all the attributes, even those that already appeared in the input. This is closer to what the C API does, and allows one to take the exact output of "git credential fill" as input to "git credential approve" or "git credential reject". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>	13 years ago
Javier Roucher Iglesias	e30b2feb1b	add 'git credential' plumbing command The credential API is in C, and not available to scripting languages. Expose the functionalities of the API by wrapping them into a new plumbing command "git credentials". In other words, replace the internal "test-credential" by an official Git command. Most documentation writen by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Pavel Volek <Pavel.Volek@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Kim Thuat Nguyen <Kim-Thuat.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Javier Roucher Iglesias <Javier.Roucher-Iglesias@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>	13 years ago
Jeff King	abca927dbe	introduce credentials API There are a few places in git that need to get a username and password credential from the user; the most notable one is HTTP authentication for smart-http pushing. Right now the only choices for providing credentials are to put them plaintext into your ~/.netrc, or to have git prompt you (either on the terminal or via an askpass program). The former is not very secure, and the latter is not very convenient. Unfortunately, there is no "always best" solution for password management. The details will depend on the tradeoff you want between security and convenience, as well as how git can integrate with other security systems (e.g., many operating systems provide a keychain or password wallet for single sign-on). This patch provides an abstract notion of credentials as a data item, and provides three basic operations: - fill (i.e., acquire from external storage or from the user) - approve (mark a credential as "working" for further storage) - reject (mark a credential as "not working", so it can be removed from storage) These operations can be backed by external helper processes that interact with system- or user-specific secure storage. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>	13 years ago