Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > ... So an alternative route > may be to keep git_getpass() as-is, and update the init_curl_http_auth() > callsite to include the username (but imap-send assumes that user and host > are relatively short without verifying that assumption, and should not be > used as a model of good existing code). And here is such a lazy patch, completely untested, of course ;-). http.c | 7 +++++-- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/http.c b/http.c index b2ae8de..44948a7 100644 --- a/http.c +++ b/http.c @@ -209,8 +209,11 @@ static void init_curl_http_auth(CURL *result) { if (user_name) { struct strbuf up = STRBUF_INIT; - if (!user_pass) - user_pass = xstrdup(git_getpass("Password: ")); + if (!user_pass) { + strbuf_addf(&up, "Password for %s: ", user_name); + user_pass = xstrdup(git_getpass(up.buf)); + strbuf_reset(&up); + } strbuf_addf(&up, "%s:%s", user_name, user_pass); curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_USERPWD, strbuf_detach(&up, NULL)); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html