Re: why multiple password prompts?

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Daniel Barkalow [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Paul wrote:

 > When I do a simple git-pull over SSH, why does it typically prompt me for my
 > SSH password two or three times? And no, I am not inputting it wrong.

 In some versions of git, it makes separate connections to find out what
 the remote's state is and to fetch the actual data. A third connection
 should only be needed if there are new tags to fetch, and that would be
 after some of the messages.

 One of the changes in the upcoming release is to reduce this to one,
 except for an occasional second one.

git.git's master branch seems to be hitting ssh twice fairly reliably...
[bd@shion git-test] SSH_AUTH_SOCK= ~/src/git/git-pull
bd@130.111.246.25's password:
bd@130.111.246.25's password:
remote: Counting objects: 5, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2/2)remote: , done.
remote: Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), done.
From ssh+git://bd@130.111.246.25/home/bd/git-test
   b0b8450..57a92a7  master     -> origin/master
Updating b0b8450..57a92a7
Fast forward
 fob |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
[bd@shion git-test] ~/src/git/git --version
git version 1.5.5.rc2

The remote's still on 1.5.4.4 if it matters...