Re: [PATCH 0/6] echo usernames as they are typed

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 05:58:01AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

quoted

Here's a revised version of the http-auth / credential-helper series.

And here's something I've been meaning to do on top: actually echo
characters at the username prompt. We can't do this portably, but we can
at least stub out a compatibility layer and let each system do something
sensible.

 [1/6]: move git_getpass to its own source file
 [2/6]: refactor git_getpass into generic prompt function
 [3/6]: stub out getpass_echo function
 [4/6]: prompt: add PROMPT_ECHO flag
 [5/6]: credential: use git_prompt instead of git_getpass
 [6/6]: compat/getpass: add a /dev/tty implementation

-Peff

Interesting, I've been working on something pretty similar: getting
rid of getpass usage all together:

https://github.com/kusma/git/tree/work/askpass

My reason to write a getpass replacement was to avoid capping input to
PASS_MAX, which can be as low as 8 characters (and AFAIK is just that
on Solaris)...