Knut Franke [off-list ref] writes:
From: Anselm Kruis <redacted>
Setting this option has the same effect as setting the environment variable
'GIT_ASKPASS'.
Signed-off-by: Knut Franke <redacted>
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This is useful if you have a wrapper script around git-clone doing some site-
specific customizations, but want users to be able to use plain git commands
for other operations.
I don't see ASKPASS documented anywhere in the Documentation/ in the first
place. Perhaps we would want to fix that while we are at it. Also this
does not feel like a "core." thing, but it may be just me.