Re: Which macOS versions does Git support?

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On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 08:00:00AM +0100, M Hickford wrote:

> Hi. Does anyone know which macOS versions are supported by Git?

I don't think we have any formal decision here (or for any other
platform; it is usually a cost/benefit for individual features we may
want to depend on).

> Motivation: I spotted that git-credential-osxkeychain.c uses a
> deprecated API. SecKeychainAddInternetPassword was deprecated in
> 2014's macOS 10.10 [1].  Replacement SecItemAdd was introduced in
> 2009's macOS 10.6 [2].

+cc Taylor, who I know was looking into this recently.

I'd guess that anything older than 2009 is probably not worth worrying
about.

> Further motivation: If I understand the documentation correctly, the
> new SecItemAdd API has better support for storing attributes alongside
> secrets, which might be handy for storing Git credential's new
> password_expiry_utc attribute (d208bfd, credential: new attribute
> password_expiry_utc, 2023-02-18).

Yeah, that would be a nice bonus (in addition to avoiding a deprecated
interface).

-Peff



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