On 29 Sep 2011, at 08:56, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Here's a C version that no longer links to git. I also kept the original >> Python version as an example. I decided not to call out to >> 'git credential-gitpass' as it was simple enough to manage /dev/tty >> and there's no portability issues since this is OS X specific. > > This was my first one. I kind of expected there to be some kind of > graphical password dialog. Especially because keychain will pop up a > dialog and ask you "is it OK for git to access this password?". So I > sort of assumed that people would assume that credentials happened > outside of the regular terminal session (I see the same thing on Linux, > for example, with gpg-agent, which will open a new window and grab > focus). > > But I have no idea what's "normal" on OS X. It's normal for applications on OS X to present their own UI when asking for credentials in order to save them to the keychain. For example, web passwords stored by Safari are captured via the normal web page form elements, but stored in the keychain. That said, most terminal applications aren't aware of the Mac OS X keychain. So I suppose it may surprise users to come across the password prompt in the terminal UI, even though that is the same pattern that graphical programs follow. But it's not without precedent: I'm pretty certain Subversion collects credentials directly in the terminal for storage in the keychain. Chris -- 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