One prompt for GitHub remotes

[sorin-ionescu]

I understand why you store credentials per remote, but when it comes to GitHub, there is duplication. Perhaps, exemptions should be added for GitHub, Gitorious, and similar to only ask for credentials once.

[samuelkadolph]

That's a good idea but I would be concerned that it would make it impossible to use more than 1 GitHub account on your system.

[sorin-ionescu]

I have thought about that as well. It would be nice to know how many people actually have multiple GitHub accounts. I'd bet they are a minority. That said, GitHub does like to insert the username in the HTTPS URL, and that can be a clue as to which account git-password should use. There still needs to be a method to mark one account as default for use by non user-prefixed URLs.

[samuelkadolph]

I would agree that it would be a small amount of people (doesn't help when it's against the ToS to have multiple free accounts). I'm looking at way to test the credentials so I can be able to detect invalids ones (which would handle multiple accounts since it can prompt for other credentials and store them as an exception).

I was hoping to avoid having any user interaction with the program itself but it may be unavoidable to allow you to mark a username/password combo as the default for GitHub.