Add a new option 'core.askpass'.

Setting this option has the same effect as setting the environment variable
'GIT_ASKPASS'.

Signed-off-by: Knut Franke <k.franke@science-computing.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index cdcf5836c6..ac55730fa7 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -560,6 +560,9 @@ static int git_default_core_config(const char *var, const char *value)
 	if (!strcmp(var, "core.editor"))
 		return git_config_string(&editor_program, var, value);
 
+	if (!strcmp(var, "core.askpass"))
+		return git_config_string(&askpass_program, var, value);
+
 	if (!strcmp(var, "core.excludesfile"))
 		return git_config_pathname(&excludes_file, var, value);