On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Certainly on non-Windows something like that would not be welcome. The > user can already have specified GIT_ASKPASS if they don't have a > terminal. And once the credential-helper code is in, they can use a > platform-specific helper that provides a nice dialog if they want it. > > So I would say trying to do something graphical would be surprising and > unwelcome. But then, I am a very Unix-y kind of guy. Maybe on Windows > something like that would be more favorable. I'll leave that decision to > people who know more. I would say that also on windows it would be surprising if you are working on the command line and suddenly a pop-up appears asking for input. So even on windows you should probably keep away from gui stuff in a cli tool, although there are tools that don't. Frans -- 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