On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 16:57:24 -0500 Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: JK> On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 10:58:13AM -0500, Ted Zlatanov wrote: MM> I don't know about the netrc credential helper, but I guess that's MM> another layer. The git-remote-mediawiki code is the code to call the MM> credential C API, that in turn may (or may not) call a credential MM> helper. >> >> Yup. But what you call "read" and "write" are, to the credential >> helper, "write" and "read" but it's the same protocol :) So maybe the >> names should be changed to reflect that, e.g. "query" and "response." JK> Is that true? As a user of the credential system, git-remote-mediawiki JK> would want to "write" to git-credential, then "read" the response. As a JK> helper, git-credential-netrc would want to "read" the query then JK> "write" the response. The order is different, but the operations should JK> be the same in both cases. Logically they are different steps (query and response), even though the data protocol is the same. But it's really not a big deal, I know what it means either way. JK> The big difference is that mediawiki would want an additional function JK> to open a pipe to "git credential" and operate on that, whereas the JK> helper will be reading/writing stdio. Yup. Ted -- 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