Re: [PATCHv3 5/5] git-send-email: use git credential to obtain password

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On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 06:17:27PM +0100, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:

> > I am happy to put it off until it becomes a problem, but I wonder if the
> > Git::credential() interface is sufficient to express what we would want.
> > It only allows two return values: true for approve, false for reject.
> > But we would want a tri-state: approve, reject, indeterminate.
> 
> Being it tri-state is not a problem.  The last can be easily represented
> by undef.

Yeah, I think undef makes sense there.

> > Reading the Net::SMTP code, it doesn't look like the information is even
> > available to us (it really just passes out success or failure), so I
> > don't think we can even make it work now. But it may be better to
> > prepare the public Git::credential interface for it now, so we do not
> > have to deal with breaking compatibility later.
> 
> I guess.  I left it as is since git-send-email won't make use of the
> indeterminate values, but I can add it in this patchset as well.

Yeah, I am more worried about third-party uses outside of the Git tree,
which we may then break if we change the meaning of "undef" later.
Thanks.

-Peff
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