Re: Cleaning up "contrib/"

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Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes:

> Yup. I think safe credential helpers should rather be moved into our
> official tree. This includes at least libsecret and osxkeychain.

Yes.  s|^contrib/|| should be sufficient for them.

> I'm not
> sure about the netrc one though -- it's unsafe by nature, and I'm not
> sure I would feel comfortable with shipping such a credential helper
> that is known-unsafe.

That depends.  It is a known-convenient helper that can often be
used in an unsafe way, but when used with GPG encrypted netrc files,
especially on a single user box that is reasonably secured, it is
unfair to call it known-unsafe, I would have to say.

Thanks.






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