On 18 Feb 2024, at 20:40, M Hickford [off-list ref] wrote:

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git-credential-osxkeychain has largely fallen behind other external
credential helpers in the features it supports, and hasn't received any
functional changes since 2013. As it stood, osxkeychain failed seven tests
in the external credential helper test suite:

not ok 8 - helper (osxkeychain) overwrites on store
not ok 9 - helper (osxkeychain) can forget host
not ok 11 - helper (osxkeychain) does not erase a password distinct from input
not ok 15 - helper (osxkeychain) erases all matching credentials
not ok 18 - helper (osxkeychain) gets password_expiry_utc
not ok 19 - helper (osxkeychain) overwrites when password_expiry_utc changes
not ok 21 - helper (osxkeychain) gets oauth_refresh_token

After this set of patches, osxkeychain passes all tests in the external

credential helper test suite.

Great work!

Could these tests run as part of macOS CI?

Do we do so for any of the other external credential helpers?

It definitely makes sense in principle. Though the concern perhaps will be that any new features added to the credential helpers and thus its test suite would need adding to each credential helper simultaneously to avoid failing CI. Ideally we would do exactly that, though that requires knowledge on each of the keystore APIs used in each of the credential helpers.