It is a well known problem on msysgit that when ssh is started
from git-gui during a fetch, any situations where it normally
displays a prompt to the user cause it to hang silently. It is
even worse than the situation on Linux, where the prompts appear
on the terminal that started the GUI.
This combination of 3 patches aims to eliminate this problem. One
of them changes a flag that is used to spawn the ssh executable,
to make it recognize that it does not have a valid controlling
console. The other two add features to git-gui that make ssh
usage more convenient, including a simple implementation of an
SSH_ASKPASS program.
When the patches are applied, all SSH prompts in msysgit
appear in a GUI dialog box in the middle of the screen.
Additionally, it is possible to view or create an OpenSSH
key pair directly from git-gui.
Note: This was already posted to the msysgit list. The only differences
are that git-gui now sets a more evidently fake value for DISPLAY,
and the last patch has been acked.
GIT-GUI:
git-gui: Add a dialog that shows the OpenSSH public key.
---
git-gui.sh | 4 ++
lib/sshkey.tcl | 126 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 130 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 lib/sshkey.tcl
git-gui: Add a simple implementation of SSH_ASKPASS.
---
Makefile | 2 ++
git-gui.sh | 12 ++++++++++++
git-gui--askpass | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100755 git-gui--askpass
CORE(MINGW):
Windows: Make OpenSSH properly detect tty detachment.
---
compat/mingw.c | 8 ++++++--
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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