From: Matthew John Cheetham <mjcheetham@xxxxxxxxxxx>
It is the expectation that credential helpers be liberal in what they
accept and conservative in what they return, to allow for future growth
and evolution of the protocol/interaction.
All of the other helpers (store, cache, osxkeychain, libsecret,
gnome-keyring) except `netrc` currently ignore any credential lines
that are not recognised, whereas the Windows helper (wincred) instead
dies.
Fix the discrepancy and ignore unknown lines in the wincred helper.
Signed-off-by: Matthew John Cheetham <mjcheetham@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
contrib/credential/wincred/git-credential-wincred.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/contrib/credential/wincred/git-credential-wincred.c b/contrib/credential/wincred/git-credential-wincred.c
index 5091048f9c6..ead6e267c78 100644
--- a/contrib/credential/wincred/git-credential-wincred.c
+++ b/contrib/credential/wincred/git-credential-wincred.c
@@ -278,8 +278,11 @@ static void read_credential(void)
wusername = utf8_to_utf16_dup(v);
} else if (!strcmp(buf, "password"))
password = utf8_to_utf16_dup(v);
- else
- die("unrecognized input");
+ /*
+ * Ignore other lines; we don't know what they mean, but
+ * this future-proofs us when later versions of git do
+ * learn new lines, and the helpers are updated to match.
+ */
}
}
--
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