Hi,

I wanted to submit an issue regarding the credential-osxkeychain interface 
functionality.  I don't know whether it's a bug or a feature request.  Maybe 
it's even impossible to address? - I don't know, but here's my issue.  Let me 
know if fixing/implementing this is a bad idea or if it's an issue relating to 
something wrong on my system and not an issue with git itself.

I have a git repo in a dropbox directory (not sure if that's relevant - just 
giving full disclosure).  I have set up git to not ask me for my password by 
using the credential-osxkeychain feature, and it works great... unless I'm 
connected via ssh to the machine that has a copy of my Dropbox on it.  Various 
git commands interrogate me for my login instead of using the credentials 
stored in the KA database on that remote machine, e.g.:

git remote show origin
Username for 'https://github.com': ^C

When I'm sitting at that machine, I do not get asked for my login credentials.

It's a minor issue, and kind of silly TBH.  I can always just work on my repo 
locally and synch, but if I'm working on a project that processes a large 
dataset, it's faster to edit the project on the machine with the data I'm 
testing it with.  I could VNC in or just synch after each change, which works 
around the issue, but it's nicer to just do everything on one ssh terminal 
session.

But perhaps access to KA from a remote ssh session is restricted for security 
reasons?  I'm just curious I suppose.  Should/can this work?

Thanks,
Rob

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