On Wednesday, May 25, 2011, Ted Zlatanov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to suggest that on GNU Emacs Magit could use > `auth-source-search' (see (info "auth") for details) to retrieve user > passwords for such interactive prompts. auth-source.el works in XEmacs > too; it's part of Gnus right now but can be unbundled if you want to use > it there. `magit-password' can then be modified to use the matched > string data (key name or user@host) for the search.
At the moment Magit actually *never* asks for a password; it invokes Git as a subprocess, and Git asks for a password if needed. I've found a scenario where this fails under GNU/Linux [1], and I don't know if it ever works under Windows [2]. I, for one, would certainly welcome a solution that works all the time. [1] https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/154 [2] https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/188 -- -PJ
