On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 07:59:22PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > We did discuss patches a long time ago that would let Git carry > arbitrary keys between helpers, even if Git itself didn't understand it. > One of the intended uses was to let helpers talk to each other about > TTLs. So if you had say: > > [credential] > helper = generate-some-token > helper = cache > > where the first helper generates a token, and the second caches it, the > first one could shove a "ttl" or "expiration" key into the protocol, > which the cache could then learn to respect. In case anyone is morbidly curious, it was in this thread: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20120407033417.GA13914@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ -Peff
