On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:18:00 -0500 wor...@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) wrote:
> > From: lei yang <yanglei.f...@gmail.com> > > > > git config --global sendemail.smtppass xxxx this will display > > password in .git config > > > > can we avoid this ? > > The value is in a configuration file which the user can read. If you > modify the git code, you can prevent "git config" from printing it, > but you can't stop the user from looking in the file. Note that "--global" means storing the password in ~/.gitconfig, which I doubt is world-readable, and even if it is, disabling this is just a matter of running `chmod o- ~/.gitconfig`. --
