Re: The imporantance of including http credential caching in 1.7.7

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On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Junio mentioned in WC that he wants to see some feedback on it's
> usage, perhaps that you can help provide this by providing a git
> patched with this functionality to some of your users and see how they
> respond?

Perhaps this is where things get complicated. Due to the nature of the people
I'm discussing (people afraid of SSH keys), getting them to run a custom
version of git is pretty far out of the question. Peff alluded to this in his
reply.

I think the best evidence I can provide is in context of GitHub for Mac.
GitHub for Mac defaults to Smart HTTP, with the credentials cached in OSX's
Keychain. Effectively, it functions as a patched git with credential caching.

Two months after shipping, we have around 20,000 people that use the
application regularly. In that time, we've gotten a ton of positive feedback.
So there is a great number of people interested in a git client that uses
Smart HTTP. One of the bigger complaints we get is that people constantly have
to enter their username & password if they choose to drop to the command line.

Of course, this is all fuzzy data since it's not really comparable with git
core. But it's the only data I have.

Then again, perhaps the fact that we spent development time hacking around
git's limitation is a data point in itself. Git GUI developers are spending
development time to fill a hole in git core.

Kyle
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