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Re: [PATCH/RFC 4/5] mingw: reuse tty-version of git_terminal_prompt

From: Johannes Schindelin <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:55:28

Hi kusma,

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
The getpass-implementation we use on Windows isn't at all ideal;
it works in raw-mode (as opposed to cooked mode), and as a result
does not deal correcly with deletion, arrow-keys etc.

Instead, use cooked mode to read a line at the time, allowing the
C run-time to process the input properly.
Awesome!

The patch itself has a couple Windows-specific things in compat/terminal.c
that I would have loved to see in compat/mingw.c instead, but it looks as
if we have no choice: restore_term() and disable_echo() need to be
substantially different enough from the implementation in compat/mingw.c.

(Read: I am fine with this patch.)

Ciao,
Dscho

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