Re: Feed EOF to git user and password requester.

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 11:57:24PM -0400, David Niklas (deference@null.net) 
wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I have some git repos and sometimes I find that one of them ceases to
> exist. When that happens, I get a prompt for my user name and password.
> 
> This causes a problem because my automatic update script hangs waiting
> for input. I tried "cat /dev/null | git pull", but git still requests the
> information and halts.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas? I did search extensively online.

A couple of possibilities:

You can set GIT_ASKPASS variable to point to a script that returns the
password. I don't know how it'd work with a nonexistent repo though.

You can run the git command in the background and kill it
if it doesn't respond in a set amount of time.

If all else fails, the heavy duty industrial strength solution to this
kind of problems is Expect:

https://core.tcl-lang.org/expect/index

-- 
Tapani Tarvainen