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Expose the credential API to scripted Porcelain writers.

* mm/credential-plumbing:
  git-remote-mediawiki: update comments to reflect credential support
  git-remote-mediawiki: add credential support
  git credential fill: output the whole 'struct credential'
  add 'git credential' plumbing command
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Junio C Hamano committed Jul 9, 2012
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion .gitignore
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/git-commit-tree
/git-config
/git-count-objects
/git-credential
/git-credential-cache
/git-credential-cache--daemon
/git-credential-store
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/gitweb/static/gitweb.js
/gitweb/static/gitweb.min.*
/test-chmtime
/test-credential
/test-ctype
/test-date
/test-delta
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144 changes: 144 additions & 0 deletions Documentation/git-credential.txt
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git-credential(1)
=================

NAME
----
git-credential - retrieve and store user credentials

SYNOPSIS
--------
------------------
git credential <fill|approve|reject>
------------------

DESCRIPTION
-----------

Git has an internal interface for storing and retrieving credentials
from system-specific helpers, as well as prompting the user for
usernames and passwords. The git-credential command exposes this
interface to scripts which may want to retrieve, store, or prompt for
credentials in the same manner as git. The design of this scriptable
interface models the internal C API; see
link:technical/api-credentials.txt[the git credential API] for more
background on the concepts.

git-credential takes an "action" option on the command-line (one of
`fill`, `approve`, or `reject`) and reads a credential description
on stdin (see <<IOFMT,INPUT/OUTPUT FORMAT>>).

If the action is `fill`, git-credential will attempt to add "username"
and "password" attributes to the description by reading config files,
by contacting any configured credential helpers, or by prompting the
user. The username and password attributes of the credential
description are then printed to stdout together with the attributes
already provided.

If the action is `approve`, git-credential will send the description
to any configured credential helpers, which may store the credential
for later use.

If the action is `reject`, git-credential will send the description to
any configured credential helpers, which may erase any stored
credential matching the description.

If the action is `approve` or `reject`, no output should be emitted.

TYPICAL USE OF GIT CREDENTIAL
-----------------------------

An application using git-credential will typically use `git
credential` following these steps:

1. Generate a credential description based on the context.
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For example, if we want a password for
`https://example.com/foo.git`, we might generate the following
credential description (don't forget the blank line at the end; it
tells `git credential` that the application finished feeding all the
infomation it has):

protocol=https
host=example.com
path=foo.git

2. Ask git-credential to give us a username and password for this
description. This is done by running `git credential fill`,
feeding the description from step (1) to its standard input. The complete
credential description (including the credential per se, i.e. the
login and password) will be produced on standard output, like:

protocol=https
host=example.com
username=bob
password=secr3t
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In most cases, this means the attributes given in the input will be
repeated in the output, but git may also modify the credential
description, for example by removing the `path` attribute when the
protocol is HTTP(s) and `credential.useHttpPath` is false.
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If the `git credential` knew about the password, this step may
not have involved the user actually typing this password (the
user may have typed a password to unlock the keychain instead,
or no user interaction was done if the keychain was already
unlocked) before it returned `password=secr3t`.

3. Use the credential (e.g., access the URL with the username and
password from step (2)), and see if it's accepted.

4. Report on the success or failure of the password. If the
credential allowed the operation to complete successfully, then
it can be marked with an "approve" action to tell `git
credential` to reuse it in its next invocation. If the credential
was rejected during the operation, use the "reject" action so
that `git credential` will ask for a new password in its next
invocation. In either case, `git credential` should be fed with
the credential description obtained from step (2) (which also
contain the ones provided in step (1)).

[[IOFMT]]
INPUT/OUTPUT FORMAT
-------------------

`git credential` reads and/or writes (depending on the action used)
credential information in its standard input/output. These information
can correspond either to keys for which `git credential` will obtain
the login/password information (e.g. host, protocol, path), or to the
actual credential data to be obtained (login/password).

The credential is split into a set of named attributes.
Attributes are provided to the helper, one per line. Each attribute is
specified by a key-value pair, separated by an `=` (equals) sign,
followed by a newline. The key may contain any bytes except `=`,
newline, or NUL. The value may contain any bytes except newline or NUL.
In both cases, all bytes are treated as-is (i.e., there is no quoting,
and one cannot transmit a value with newline or NUL in it). The list of
attributes is terminated by a blank line or end-of-file.
Git will send the following attributes (but may not send all of
them for a given credential; for example, a `host` attribute makes no
sense when dealing with a non-network protocol):

`protocol`::

The protocol over which the credential will be used (e.g.,
`https`).

`host`::

The remote hostname for a network credential.

`path`::

The path with which the credential will be used. E.g., for
accessing a remote https repository, this will be the
repository's path on the server.

`username`::

The credential's username, if we already have one (e.g., from a
URL, from the user, or from a previously run helper).

`password`::

The credential's password, if we are asking it to be stored.
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Remove a matching credential, if any, from the helper's storage.

The details of the credential will be provided on the helper's stdin
stream. The credential is split into a set of named attributes.
Attributes are provided to the helper, one per line. Each attribute is
specified by a key-value pair, separated by an `=` (equals) sign,
followed by a newline. The key may contain any bytes except `=`,
newline, or NUL. The value may contain any bytes except newline or NUL.
In both cases, all bytes are treated as-is (i.e., there is no quoting,
and one cannot transmit a value with newline or NUL in it). The list of
attributes is terminated by a blank line or end-of-file.

Git will send the following attributes (but may not send all of
them for a given credential; for example, a `host` attribute makes no
sense when dealing with a non-network protocol):

`protocol`::

The protocol over which the credential will be used (e.g.,
`https`).

`host`::

The remote hostname for a network credential.

`path`::

The path with which the credential will be used. E.g., for
accessing a remote https repository, this will be the
repository's path on the server.

`username`::

The credential's username, if we already have one (e.g., from a
URL, from the user, or from a previously run helper).

`password`::

The credential's password, if we are asking it to be stored.
stream. The exact format is the same as the input/output format of the
`git credential` plumbing command (see the section `INPUT/OUTPUT
FORMAT` in linkgit:git-credential[7] for a detailed specification).

For a `get` operation, the helper should produce a list of attributes
on stdout in the same format. A helper is free to produce a subset, or
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PROGRAMS += $(patsubst %.o,git-%$X,$(PROGRAM_OBJS))

TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-chmtime
TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-credential
TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-ctype
TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-date
TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-delta
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BUILTIN_OBJS += builtin/commit.o
BUILTIN_OBJS += builtin/config.o
BUILTIN_OBJS += builtin/count-objects.o
BUILTIN_OBJS += builtin/credential.o
BUILTIN_OBJS += builtin/describe.o
BUILTIN_OBJS += builtin/diff-files.o
BUILTIN_OBJS += builtin/diff-index.o
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extern int cmd_commit_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_config(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_count_objects(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_credential(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_describe(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_diff_files(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_diff_index(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
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#include "git-compat-util.h"
#include "credential.h"
#include "builtin.h"

static const char usage_msg[] =
"git credential [fill|approve|reject]";

int cmd_credential(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
{
const char *op;
struct credential c = CREDENTIAL_INIT;

op = argv[1];
if (!op)
usage(usage_msg);

if (credential_read(&c, stdin) < 0)
die("unable to read credential from stdin");

if (!strcmp(op, "fill")) {
credential_fill(&c);
credential_write(&c, stdout);
} else if (!strcmp(op, "approve")) {
credential_approve(&c);
} else if (!strcmp(op, "reject")) {
credential_reject(&c);
} else {
usage(usage_msg);
}
return 0;
}
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