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   sourcecode jerk (pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 04:38:24 JST sourcecode jerk

   til you don't need to store sendemail.smtppass in your .gitconfig because it will fetch it from git-credential

   git-credential can invoke various helpers to obtain the password:

   • a normal password dialog (ssh-askpass)
   • from a cleartext file (git-credential-store)
   • from a cache (get-credential-cache)
   • from other helpers, extensible with scripts!

   so i can totally make git automatically use my favorite password manager https://www.passwordstore.org/

   more info: man 7 gitcredentials

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 04:38:21 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     @pho4cexa is this for like ... when you're cloning from a repo that's non-SSH but still private?

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     sourcecode jerk (pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 04:38:22 JST sourcecode jerk

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     pass uses git as a backend so with this script, pass can ask git to push your passwords to your offsite backup repo which might require git to ask pass for the credentials which will have pass read them out of a gpg encrypted file in its local git clone whee 😵

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     sourcecode jerk (pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 04:38:24 JST sourcecode jerk

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     you're using pass, the best password manager, right?
     https://passwordstore.org

     this shell script plugs pass into git as a "credential helper"

     chock it into your $PATH and run git config --global credential.helper pass, and thenceforth git will use pass to store credentials

     https://git.orbital.rodeo/mike/home.git/html/bin/git-credential-pass.html

     not bad for 28 sloc and i bet i can lose a few more

     if you're using some other password manager, you can find similar tools for those here https://git-scm.com/doc/credential-helpers

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 04:43:07 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     @pho4cexa aha got it; yeah

     I only use HTTPS for pulling from public repos but the send-email auth is definitely annoying; will give this a try

     pass is one of my favorite "just works" utilities

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     sourcecode jerk (pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 04:43:09 JST sourcecode jerk

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     • tech? no! man, see...

     @technomancy yeah, http(s) transports that use auth will use this

     but in my case the whole thing was motivated by wanting to set up git send-email without having to store my smtp server password in my .gitconfig (sendemail.smtppass) (because .gitconfig is in my public dotfiles)