Re: Disabling credential helper?

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Jeff King wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 04:59:53PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> As long as you have no credential helpers configured, your GIT_ASKPASS
>> based approach should work fine.
>
> Yeah, it's fine (as is GIT_ASKPASS=true). You could also provide a
> credential helper that gives you an empty username and password. But in
> both cases, I think that git will then feed the empty password to the
> server again, resulting in an extra useless round-trip. You probably
> instead want to say "stop now, git, there is nothing else to be done".
>
> We could teach the credential-helper code to do that (e.g., a helper
> returns "stop=true" and we respect that). But I think you can do it
> reasonably well today by making the input process fail.

How can my scripts defend against a credential helper that I didn't
set up that e.g. pops up a GUI window to ask for a password?

Thanks,
Jonathan
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