On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 10:28:56AM +0100, Lars Schneider wrote: > > Yeah, that is the solution I was going to suggest. The credentials are > > totally orthogonal to the filters, and I would rather not shove them > > into the protocol. It's an extra process, but with the new multi-use > > smudge filter, it's one per git invocation, not one per file. > > The trouble with "git credential" is that it works only if the credential > helper is setup correctly. Although I assume that most people have setup this, > I have also worked with a number of people who prefer to enter their passwords > every time Git makes a network connection. Are you sure about that? If I do: echo url=https://example.com/repo.git | git credential fill I get prompted for a username and password. -Peff