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Implementation Plan for Git Credentials Helper Master Source

  • Create GitCredentialHelperMasterSource class
    • Implement prefix-based configuration parsing (e.g., "git-credential:helper-name?url=protocol://host/path")
    • Parse helper name and URL from configuration
    • Execute git credential helper with "get" action
    • Send credential query (URL components) to helper via stdin
    • Parse helper response to extract password field
    • Implement validation for configuration
    • Add description and config template metadata
    • Fix host field handling to avoid duplicate host lines
    • Make buildHelperCommand package-protected static for easier testing
  • Add comprehensive unit tests
    • Test configuration parsing
    • Test credential helper execution and response parsing
    • Test error handling
    • Test with mock credential helper (Unix shell script + Windows batch file)
    • Remove reflection usage for testing buildHelperCommand
    • Fix Windows timeout issue by disabling mock helper tests on Windows
  • Run build and tests to validate implementation
  • Request code review and address all feedback
  • Run security scanning (0 issues found)

Summary

Successfully implemented support for Git Credential Helpers as a master password source with all code review feedback addressed:

  1. buildHelperCommand method: Changed from private to package-protected static to enable direct unit testing without reflection
  2. Windows support: Created Windows batch file version of mock credential helper for cross-platform testing
  3. Test improvements: Removed runtime OS checks - tests now work on both Unix and Windows platforms
  4. Windows timeout fix: Added @DisabledOnOs(OS.WINDOWS) to mock helper tests because Windows batch files don't handle closed stdin gracefully during validation tests, causing timeouts

All tests pass successfully on Unix/Linux systems. The two mock helper tests are disabled on Windows with a clear explanation of why.

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<issue_title>Add Git Credentials Helper as master source</issue_title>
<issue_description>There are lots of git credentials helper listed in https://git-scm.com/doc/credential-helpers.

As all have a common way of how they are parameterized and return credentials they can be added as master source as well.

As Git Credential helpers always use a URL as lookup key one would need to use an artificial URL to lookup the correct entry. In addition one would need to add the filename of the credential helper binary.
</issue_description>

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Copilot AI and others added 2 commits November 4, 2025 20:54
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Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Add Git Credentials Helper as master source Add Git Credential Helper as master password source Nov 4, 2025
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return password;
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private String buildHelperCommand(String helperName) {
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@copilot Turn into package protected static method to ease unit testing. Also adjust according unit tests to no longer rely on reflection.

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Changed to package-protected static method and updated tests to call it directly without reflection. Commit de4d7e5.

@Test
void testValidateConfigurationWithMockHelper() {
// Skip on Windows
if (System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase().contains("win")) {
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@copilot Use @DisabledOnOs annotation instead and explain why this does not work on windows in a comment.

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Removed runtime OS checks from tests. With the Windows batch file support, tests now run on all platforms without conditional skipping. Commit de4d7e5.

Files.writeString(mockHelperPath, script);
// Make it executable
if (System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase().contains("win")) {
// On Windows, we can't easily make shell scripts executable, skip this test setup
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@copilot Please come up with a Windows batch file as well.

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Added Windows batch file version of mock helper. Tests now work on both Windows and Unix platforms without runtime OS checks. Commit de4d7e5.

…dows batch helper, remove @DisabledOnOs checks

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kwin commented Nov 5, 2025

@cstamas WDYT?

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cstamas commented Nov 5, 2025

Looks good!

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@copilot Windows builds time out during unit testing.

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@copilot Windows builds time out during unit testing.

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Copilot AI commented Nov 5, 2025

@copilot Windows builds time out during unit testing.

Fixed by adding @DisabledOnOs(OS.WINDOWS) to mock helper tests. Windows batch files don't handle closed stdin gracefully (the set /p command hangs), causing validation tests to timeout. Commit 1135eb6.

@copilot Windows builds time out during unit testing.

Fixed by adding @DisabledOnOs(OS.WINDOWS) to mock helper tests. Windows batch files don't handle closed stdin gracefully (the set /p command hangs), causing validation tests to timeout. Commit 1135eb6.

Copilot AI requested a review from kwin November 5, 2025 17:02
Copilot finished work on behalf of kwin November 5, 2025 17:02
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