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author | Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2011-12-10 05:31:34 -0500 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-12-11 23:16:25 -0800 |
commit | a78fbb4fb6c69d96cb91dee9d4733d2326c6d019 (patch) | |
tree | 748d1990319b7c91ec3c32b6ee132443e1badc73 /transport.c | |
parent | credential: add credential.*.username (diff) | |
download | tgif-a78fbb4fb6c69d96cb91dee9d4733d2326c6d019.tar.xz |
credential: make relevance of http path configurable
When parsing a URL into a credential struct, we carefully
record each part of the URL, including the path on the
remote host, and use the result as part of the credential
context.
This had two practical implications:
1. Credential helpers which store a credential for later
access are likely to use the "path" portion as part of
the storage key. That means that a request to
https://example.com/foo.git
would not use the same credential that was stored in an
earlier request for:
https://example.com/bar.git
2. The prompt shown to the user includes all relevant
context, including the path.
In most cases, however, users will have a single password
per host. The behavior in (1) will be inconvenient, and the
prompt in (2) will be overly long.
This patch introduces a config option to toggle the
relevance of http paths. When turned on, we use the path as
before. When turned off, we drop the path component from the
context: helpers don't see it, and it does not appear in the
prompt.
This is nothing you couldn't do with a clever credential
helper at the start of your stack, like:
[credential "http://"]
helper = "!f() { grep -v ^path= ; }; f"
helper = your_real_helper
But doing this:
[credential]
useHttpPath = false
is way easier and more readable. Furthermore, since most
users will want the "off" behavior, that is the new default.
Users who want it "on" can set the variable (either for all
credentials, or just for a subset using
credential.*.useHttpPath).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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