Hi all, First and foremost: big kudos to everybody involved in creating pass! This is the first password sharing software that is intuitively usable (at least for techies), portable, stable, and future-proof that I've seen - and I've been looking for quite a while. I am currently introducing it to my consulting clients, and the response so far has also been rather positive. Great job!
My itch was that it's not easy to work with multiple stores, or to check out an existing git-managed store. While I can do a `git clone`, configure some environment variables, and even set up a per-directory environment variable contexts in zsh, it's not something I can recommend with straight face to my clients. Best I could come up with was instructions to clone the repository in ~/.password-store -- but then, the checkout still does not live alongside checkouts of other repos of the project, and is kind of invisible. I understand and appreciate that the whole idea for pass was to be invisible and get out of user's sight as much as possible - but in context of my work it tries a little bit too much. To have pass working seamlessly in git checkouts under any path, with password store as a subdirectory of an existing git repo, and work out of the box in fresh clones, I have written a small wrapper script, named "git-pass". It can go to $PATH and work as a "git pass" subcommand, or can be committed to the repository and work as a standalone script. It allows one to "cd" into a checkout, run "git pass ls" etc (or "./scripts/pass ls" etc), and have it do the right thing. To set up PASSWORD_STORE_DIR, it looks into Git configuration, and if it's not present, it finds a directory containing all ".gpg-id" files that exist in repo, so it will correctly recognize store in any subdirectory of the repository. If there are no ".gpg-id" files, it defaults to root of working tree, which allows initialization with "git repo init -p path/to/subdirectory ...". So far, it just Does What I Mean, and I have released the script on MIT license in hope it will be useful not only for myself. You can see and download the script at https://gist.github.com/mpasternacki/e308be60eb2a67be080a Happy hacking! -- Maciej
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