"Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Add a new configuration value, 'credential.interactive', to specify to the > credential helper that it should not prompt for user interaction. This > option has been respected by Git Credential Manager since 2020 [1], so this > is now presenting it as an official Git config value. So, the other helpers are also supposed to check for the variable and fail when it has to go interactive now. > These changes were first merged into the microsoft/git fork in August 2023 > [2] but were not upstreamed immediately. The change has been a positive one > for users of that fork, as they no longer get pop-ups and they also are not > getting maintenance.lock file blocks when the prefetch task waits for > credentials. This has become even more important recently as credential > lifetimes have been restricted significantly, leading to a higher likelihood > that this will happen during a background prefetch. Sounds good.
