Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-svn, perl/Git.pm: extend and use Git->prompt method for querying users

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:11:44 +0100

Sven Strickroth wrote:
> Am 03.01.2012 19:40 schrieb Jeff King:

> > There is one difference between how git and ssh use the ASKPASS
> > variable. In git, we try it _first_, and fall back to asking on the
> > terminal.  For ssh, they first try the terminal, and fall back to
> > askpass only when the terminal cannot be opened.
> 
> I checked out subversion (svn co
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk subversion) and
> performed a "grep ASKPASS * -R": Only match in
> "contrib\client-side\emacs\psvn.el". So I doubt if subversion really
> supports SSH_ASKPASS.

Doesn't Subversion use SSH directly?  If it is so, the question is
about how SSH itself supports SSH_ASKPASS.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland