From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F2B5C4332F for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 18:52:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S234914AbiKQSwH (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:52:07 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:50136 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S235002AbiKQSvx (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:51:53 -0500 Received: from cloud.peff.net (cloud.peff.net [104.130.231.41]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 85D9A5917F for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 10:51:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 26086 invoked by uid 109); 17 Nov 2022 18:51:52 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with ESMTP; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 18:51:52 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 14724 invoked by uid 111); 17 Nov 2022 18:51:52 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with (TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:51:52 -0500 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:51:51 -0500 From: Jeff King To: Matthew John Cheetham Cc: "brian m. carlson" , M Hickford , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The enduring popularity of git-credential-store Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 09:17:53AM -0800, Matthew John Cheetham wrote: > > In the ideal world, we'd ship an encrypted store that people could use, > > but then we have to deal with export regulations and sanctions and > > nobody wants to do that. We'd also have to deal with multiple > > cryptographic libraries for portability and license reasons and nobody > > wants to do that, either. > > One option rather than shipping (or including in contrib/) any of these > credential helpers, could we not reference several other popular helpers > in the docs, and let users make their own choice (but at least some are > then possibly more discoverable)? I don't have any problem with documenting the options better. The main reason we have store/cache at all, even though they kind of suck, was to act as least-common-denominators and pave the way for people making better helpers. That happened, but nobody ever went back to adjust the docs. I do think having the docs say "you should go use X" means that X will have an advantage over other projects which may compete with it. So I think we need to be careful to be inclusive of what we'll mention, and to word it so that we're not endorsing any one project. -Peff