Asks for github password when I mistype plugin name

[mgedmin]

I wanted to install python_open_module.vim the other day, so I typed :PluginInstall python_open_module.vim.

I got a prompt Username for 'https://github.com': instead of a message that such a module doesn't exist (because it's actually :PluginInstall python_open_module without .vim).

[wsdjeg]

hi the plugin show you this because it can not search it from github/vim-scripts,maybe it is exits in other people's repo ,so it want you type the usename

[gmarik]

@mgedmin it's a bit tricky to detect that state… Any ideas are welcomed!

Possible workaround: poke with curl for 40X before running git clone

[mgedmin]

It's surprisingly hard to discover how to ask git not to ask for passwords (Google failed me, git's man pages for clone/fetch also), but I discovered one way that works:

$ git clone https://github.com/nosuch/repo
Cloning into 'repo'...
Username for 'https://github.com': ^C

$ GIT_ASKPASS=true git clone https://github.com/nosuch/repo
Cloning into 'repo'...
remote: Repository not found.
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/nosuc/repo/'

GIT_ASKPASS is documented in gitcredentials(7) and git-config(1).

On non-POSIX systems you'd probably have to find some other binary that exits without an error and doesn't produce any output. Although perhaps the Git for Windows distribution ships a true.exe in its copy of Mingw? It ships a bash, so why not true?

[wsdjeg]

i can not understande what you want!
if you want git push without type the passward,i think you should add

[credential] 
helper = store

to ~/.gitconfig

[mgedmin]

I want :PluginInstall something-that-does-not-exist to tell me such a plugin doesn't exist, instead of asking for my GitHub username and password..

[gmarik]

GIT_ASKPASS is documented in gitcredentials(7) and git-config(1).

@mgedmin great find!

You can do let $GIT_ASKPASS='true' in .vimrc and it should not ask pass anymore.

Let me know how it works for you!

[gmarik]

@mgedmin: created #667 to implement it.

Closing this issue. Thank you!