Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2012, #06; Sun, 19)

Erik Faye-Lund [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

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* ef/win32-cred-helper (2012-08-16) 1 commit
 - contrib: add win32 credential-helper

Credential helper for Win32 (is this GUI???).

No, and credential helpers shouldn't be either.

Hrm, doesn't it even do "the application wants to access your
keychain.  Allow it [Y/N]?" kind of thing?

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Erik Faye-Lund [off-list ref] writes:

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On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

* ef/win32-cred-helper (2012-08-16) 1 commit
 - contrib: add win32 credential-helper

Credential helper for Win32 (is this GUI???).

No, and credential helpers shouldn't be either.

Hrm, doesn't it even do "the application wants to access your
keychain.  Allow it [Y/N]?" kind of thing?

No. On Windows, you can freely access the keychain as long as a user
is logged in and the machine is not locked.