From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Nikita Leonov via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Nikita Leonov <nykyta.leonov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] credential.c: fix credential reading with regards to CR/LF
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2020 15:28:09 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2010031527200.50@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqk0w8a8re.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
Hi Junio,
On Fri, 2 Oct 2020, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
> > Therefore, I spent some time pouring over the commit message. This is my
> > current version:
> >
> > credential: treat CR/LF as line endings in the credential protocol
> >
> > This fix makes using Git credentials more friendly to Windows users: it
> > allows a credential helper to communicate using CR/LF line endings ("DOS
> > line endings" commonly found on Windows) instead of LF-only line endings
> > ("Unix line endings").
> >
> > Note that this changes the behavior a bit: if a credential helper
> > produces, say, a password with a trailing Carriage Return character,
> > that will now be culled even when the rest of the lines end only in Line
> > Feed characters, indicating that the Carriage Return was not meant to be
> > part of the line ending.
> >
> > In practice, it seems _very_ unlikely that something like this happens.
> > Passwords usually need to consist of non-control characters, URLs need
> > to have special characters URL-encoded, and user names, well, are names.
> >
> > So let's change the credential machinery to accept both CR/LF and LF
> > line endings.
> >
> > While we do this for the credential helper protocol, we do _not_ do
> > adjust `git credential-cache--daemon` (which won't work on Windows,
> > anyway, because it requires Unix sockets) nor `git credential-store`
> > (which writes the file `~/.git-credentials` which we consider an
> > implementation detail that should be opaque to the user, read: we do
> > expect users _not_ to edit this file manually).
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> I am not Peff, but I was also drawn into the same confusion by the
> "we never see an empty line" red herring.
:-)
> There are some micronits, but the above made a lot easier to
> understand (I think you could even add "quit\r" bit to make it even
> easier to understand) than the original description.
Okay, I incorporated a comment talking about `quit\r` and will submit
a new iteration right now.
Thanks,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-03 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-14 13:49 [PATCH] credential.c: fix credential reading with regards to CR/LF Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-02-14 17:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-02-14 18:32 ` Jeff King
2020-09-28 11:40 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Prepare git credential to read input with DOS line endings Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-09-28 11:40 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] credential.c: fix credential reading with regards to CR/LF Nikita Leonov via GitGitGadget
2020-09-29 0:42 ` Jeff King
2020-10-02 11:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-10-02 12:01 ` Jeff King
2020-10-02 12:27 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-10-02 16:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-03 13:28 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2020-09-28 11:40 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] credentials: make line reading Windows compatible Nikita Leonov via GitGitGadget
2020-09-28 20:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-29 0:35 ` Jeff King
2020-09-30 22:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-02 7:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-28 23:26 ` Carlo Arenas
2020-09-28 23:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-29 0:30 ` Jeff King
2020-09-29 0:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-29 0:44 ` Jeff King
2020-09-29 0:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-29 3:00 ` Jeff King
2020-09-30 22:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-30 22:39 ` Jeff King
2020-09-30 22:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-01 13:54 ` Jeff King
2020-10-01 15:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-02 8:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-28 11:40 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] docs: make notes regarding credential line reading Nikita Leonov via GitGitGadget
2020-09-28 20:31 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Prepare git credential to read input with DOS line endings Junio C Hamano
2020-10-03 13:29 ` [PATCH v3] credential: treat CR/LF as line endings in the credential protocol Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
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