On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 03:43:01AM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote:

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

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.

A question: does it work also for access via SSH, either without
public key set up (i.e. 'keyboard-interactive'), or with encrypted
private key without ssh-agent set up?

No. ssh handles its own password querying, and contacts the user
directly via the terminal. And there's not much point in using a
password helper with ssh; if you don't want to type your password, set
up a key and use ssh-agent.

It would probably require URL i.e. ssh://git.example.com/srv/scm/repo.git
or git+ssh://git.example.com/srv/scm/repo.git and not scp-like
address i.e. user@git.example.com:/srv/scm/repo.git, isn't it?

It's not a matter of recognizing the URL; it's that we hand off the
authentication problem to ssh, which takes care of it entirely itself.

-Peff