git, SSH_ASKPASS on windows
- by Martin Schreiber
I am writing a graphical git frontend for Linux and Windows
(MSEgit) based on MSEide+MSEgui. MSEgit has an internal console window which communicates with git by pipes. On Linux it uses a PTY so SSH asks for key unlocking passwords on the PTY.
On Windows I wrote a small password entry application and set the SSH_ASKPASS environment variable…