Possible issue with command server

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Sat Apr 12 20:53:18 UTC 2014


On Sat, 2014-04-12 at 20:37 +0200, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am attaching my IDE (eric5) to Mercurial using the command server. That 
> works quite well. However, in a particular case it fails. This is when Mercurial 
> is asking the user for login credentials (e.g. when pushing to a repository 
> that needs this). First the user name is requested and I can send the data 
> fine through the 'L' channel. Thereafter the prompt 'password: ' is send 
> through the 'e' channel but there is no input request through the 'I' or 'L' 
> channel. How am I supposed to handle this case and send the password 
> back to the server?

Probably an oversight in our command server. We're probably still
calling the stock get-password-safely-from-console code rather than
going through the command server channel.

Please file a bug report so we can keep track of this and you can stay
in the loop: http://bz.selenic.com

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