Re: Calling ssh from git-gui

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 10:15:43AM -0700, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

And that is why it doesn't handle (ii) or (iii) at the present time,
and unless I am given a nice patch series for any git-gui related
parts of this, why it will continue to remain that way for quite
some time.

My writeup was not actually intended as 'how we might do it' but 'how
should *I* implement this'. ;-) I _do_ plan for a nice patch series.
For now I'm defaulting on the SSH_ASKPASS approach.

Damn annoying for git-gui to be invoking a new terminal window, but
maybe that's what we have to do.  Be nice though if the window only
was opened because we couldn't do "git ls-remote url" but its hard
to tell "hanging because SSH needs the user" and "hanging because
the network is a 2400 baud modem".

Oh, indeed - that is something what I had in mind when starting to write
this mail about a week ago, but forgot to mention now. It's the
possibility of having console spawn a real tty (or do some more stuff to
*emulate* a tty, but again, this might get hairy in TCL). However, this
feels very... "untidy" compared to SSH_ASKPASS.

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