Prevent git from prompting for credentials #6141
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There can be situations where git needs credentials and prompts the user,
This does not make sense in automated code and results in a hanging process
waitign for input.
We can prevent a prompt by setting the following two variables:
https://git-scm.com/docs/git#Documentation/git.txt-codeGITASKPASScode
GIT_ASKPASS
https://git-scm.com/docs/git#Documentation/git.txt-codeGITTERMINALPROMPTcode
GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT
This way we will immediately get an error message.
Issue: https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/174592
In this case the error presented to the user is:
That can be improved in a followup by adding a link to our documentation.
Note: That's for AC3 of the ticket