Re: git submodule should honor "-c credential.helper" command line argument

On 03.02.2016 08:35, Jacob Keller wrote:

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 8:25 PM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

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I think the problem is that when git "switches" to working in the
submodule repository, it clears the environment, which includes any "-c"
command switches. This makes sense for some situations, but not for
others. This thread shows a similar problem:

   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/264840

Jens suggested there adding an option to tell clone to pass specific
variables to the submodule, which I think makes sense. AFAIK, nobody has
done any work yet on that approach.

This is something that I am also interested in, haven't had a chance
to look at it just yet though. I may have some time soon to take a
stab at this.

To have this issue addressed would be great. It's currently preventing 
me to switch our authentication-related code to credential helpers.

Jake, I'm happy to help, if I can (I don't have any experience with Git 
code though, except of browsing it a couple of times ... so patches from 
my side would need a lot of review I guess :). Just let me know.

-Marc