Re: [Bug] git-credential-netrc.perl is not built and is not available in `exec-path`

On 2021-05-20 at 09:51:25, Siavash wrote:

which is located in `contrib/credential/netrc`.

If I'm not mistaken, it's because it sets the `SCRIPT_PERL` environment variable here:
https://github.com/git/git/blob/88dd4282d949cdafff516650c1be8aaf4d67983f/contrib/credential/netrc/Makefile#L13

But the Git Makefile un-sets environment variables here:
https://github.com/git/git/blob/88dd4282d949cdafff516650c1be8aaf4d67983f/Makefile#L587

Also credential helpers in `contrib/credential` are not present in the
output of `git help -a`, is that a bug?

Things in contrib are not built by default because they don't
necessarily work everywhere.  For example, the osxkeychain credential
helper won't compile on Linux because the requisite shared libraries
are specific to macOS.  You'll need to compile them manually and install
them in a suitable location.

Note that that location can be someplace like ~/bin, if that's in your
PATH.  For example, since the Debian packages don't yet ship the
libsecret credential helper, I've built it and placed it there.  Now
that I've done that, git help -a shows git credential-libsecret as an
option.
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brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Houston, Texas, US