On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Jeff King <[email protected]> wrote:
> Right. And not only is that hard to get right (I doubt, for example, you
> support the arbitrary "!" shell expressions that git does), but it's
> impossible to know for sure that will be needed, because you cannot know
> all possible helpers (I might even have a helper that is a shell snippet
> that calls credential-cache).
Yep, in that case the user would have to override the result of parsing.
>> Ah, maybe the missing piece I forgot to mention is that we could make
>> our pre/1st-helper be an emacsclient command, which would tell Emacs
>> to startup the daemon. So the daemon would be a subprocess of Emacs,
>> not "git push", thereby avoiding the SIGHUP. In our current workaround
>> we startup the daemon (if it's not running) before git commands that
>> we think are going to run credential helpers (i.e. "push", "pull",
>> "fetch"), hence my thought that it would be nicer if we only did that
>> before git is *actually* going to run the helpers.
>
> I don't think even git knows it will need a helper until it is actually
> ready to call one (e.g., it may depend on getting an HTTP 401 from the
> server).
Yes, so just call me first. :)
>
> I am leaning more towards ignoring SIGHUP (configurably) being the only
> really sane path forward. Do you want to try your hand at a patch?
Something like this?
diff --git i/credential-cache--daemon.c w/credential-cache--daemon.c
index eef6fce..e3f2612 100644
--- i/credential-cache--daemon.c
+++ w/credential-cache--daemon.c
@@ -256,6 +256,9 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
OPT_END()
};
+ int ignore_sighup = 0;
+ git_config_get_bool("credential.cache.ignoreSighup", &ignore_sighup);
+
argc = parse_options(argc, argv, NULL, options, usage, 0);
socket_path = argv[0];
@@ -264,6 +267,12 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
check_socket_directory(socket_path);
register_tempfile(&socket_file, socket_path);
+
+ if (ignore_sighup) {
+ sigchain_pop(SIGHUP);
+ signal(SIGHUP, SIG_IGN);
+ }
+
serve_cache(socket_path, debug);
delete_tempfile(&socket_file);
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